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Sample Rate (noun)
Type: noun
Pronunciation: /samp-ull-rate/
What does Sample Rate mean?
How often a signal is encoded into a digital file, represented by the Nyquist Frequency.
Sample Rate is how often a signal is encoded into a digital file, represented by the Nyquist Frequency. The standard Sample Rate for music is 44.1kHz, which is about double the limit of human hearing.
Example sentence: “What is the sample rate for this song?”
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