bandpass
See also: band-pass
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From band + pass. First emerged in the context of early radio communication; attested in patents filed by Western Electric in 1919.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bandpass (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of band-pass.
- 1950, Machinery and Production Engineering, volume 77, number 2, Machinery Publishing Company, page 636:
- From the “highpass-lowpass” filter, “bandpass-bandreject” filter, or the flat amplifier, the signal, after suitable amplification with adjustable gain, may be fed to a meter which gives the root mean square value of the voltage, …
- 2013 March 20, endolith, “sampling - BandPass Signal Vs PassBand Signal”, in Signal Processing Stack Exchange[1]:
- 200 Hz is in the passband of a 100-300 Hz bandpass filter, while 50 Hz is in the stopband.
Noun
[edit]bandpass (plural bandpasses)
- A filter that lets through only a specific range of electromagnetic frequencies.
- The engineer designed an active bandpass to pick out the intermediate frequency from the noise.
- Our circuit requires a stable bandpass to isolate the audio frequencies from high-frequency interference.
- 2013 March 20, endolith, “sampling - BandPass Signal Vs PassBand Signal”, in Signal Processing Stack Exchange[2]:
- In other words, the filter is a Bandpass, what signal passes through is a Passband.