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  • noun digital signal processing An audio filter that discards higher frequencies while preserving lower ones.

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low +‎ pass

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Examples

  • * Anti-alias lowpass filter conjugated with resampler.

    AvaxHome RSS: 2009

  • This work revealed “a clear manifestation of the Medieval Warm Period” between AD 1000 and 1250, the peak warm-season temperature of which “smoothed with a 40-year lowpass Butterworth filter” was clearly higher than it was at the end of the 20th century.

    Loso: Varves in Alaska « Climate Audit 2007

  • Thick line shows the same record smoothed with a 40-yr lowpass Butterworth filter.

    Loso: Varves in Alaska « Climate Audit 2007

  • All series were smoothed with a 40-year Hamming-weights lowpass filter, with boundary constraints imposed by padding the series with its mean values during the first and last 25 years.

    The Maestro is in da house « Climate Audit 2007

  • This work revealed “a clear manifestation of the Medieval Warm Period” between AD 1000 and 1250, the peak warm-season temperature of which “smoothed with a 40-year lowpass Butterworth filter” was clearly higher than it was at the end of the 20th century.

    Unthreaded #8 « Climate Audit 2007

  • While these correlation were performed with raw, unfiltered data, for clarity the tree-ring record in Figure 7B has been smoothed with a 10-yr lowpass filter and is presented in sigma units standard deviations from the chronology mean.

    Loso: Varves in Alaska « Climate Audit 2007

  • That said, normally, a filter operation does not subtract the output from the input in such a manner, i.e. a highpass filter would be used to remove the low frequencies, and a separate lowpass filter would be used to remove the high frequencies .

    Wilson et al 2007 « Climate Audit 2007

  • The ring modulator is (a cluster of related) modifier(s), the lowpass filter is another.

    more contact samples badger 2006

  • Current Music: throb...throb...like a sine-wave lowpass filter

    [film] Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt badger 2006

  • In signal processing land, we simply take high and lowpass pairs, ala dyadic wavelets or quadrature mirror filters, to create orthogonal frequency banks.

    Splicing in Rutherford et al 2005 « Climate Audit 2006

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