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signal

A function that carries information by varying over time (or another independent variable).

A signal is a function of one or more independent variables that carries information — a voltage varying over time, a sound pressure wave, a sequence of stock prices. This course studies signals whose independent variable is time (or a sample index standing in for it).

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continuous-time signal discrete-time signal
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