Bias distortion
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bias distortion
(′bī·əs dis′tör·shən)
(communications) bias telegraph distortion
(electronics) Distortion resulting from the operation on a nonlinear portion of the characteristic curve of a vacuum tube or other device, due to improper biasing.
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Bias distortion
In telecommunication, the term bias distortion has the following meanings:
- Signal distortion resulting from a shift in the bias.
- In digital signaling, distortion of the signal in which all the significant intervals have uniformly longer or shorter durations than their theoretical durations.
Bias distortion is expressed in percent of the system-specified unit interval.
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This article incorporates public domain material from the General Services Administration document "Federal Standard 1037C" (in support of MIL-STD-188).
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