signal-to-noise ratio
/ˈsɪɡnəl tə ˌnɔɪz ˌreɪʃioʊ/
the proportion of meaningful information to irrelevant interference
signal-to-noise ratio in a sentence
“The meeting had a low signal-to-noise ratio—mostly off-topic chatter.”
Origin of signal-to-noise ratio
Technical term from electrical engineering
Related Words
bandwidth
the capacity of a channel to transmit information; cognitive processing capacity
lossless
preserving all original information through transformation
lossy
sacrificing some information for efficiency or simplicity
channel capacity
the maximum rate at which information can be reliably transmitted
bit
the fundamental unit of information; a binary choice
mutual information
the amount of information one variable contains about another