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  • 21spurious — adj. 1 not genuine, not being what it purports to be, not proceeding from the pretended source (a spurious excuse). 2 having an outward similarity of form or function only. 3 (of offspring) illegitimate. Derivatives: spuriously adv. spuriousness… …

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  • 22Spurious trip level — (STL) is defined as a discrete level for specifying the spurious trip requirements of safety functions to be allocated to safety systems. An STL of 1 means that this safety function has the highest level of spurious trips. The higher the STL… …

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  • 23Spurious primary — Spurious Spu ri*ous (sp[=u] r[i^]*[u^]s), a. [L. spurius.] 1. Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; counterfeit; false; adulterate. [1913 Webster] 2. Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue. Her… …

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  • 24Spurious quill — Spurious Spu ri*ous (sp[=u] r[i^]*[u^]s), a. [L. spurius.] 1. Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; counterfeit; false; adulterate. [1913 Webster] 2. Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue. Her… …

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  • 25Spurious wing — Spurious Spu ri*ous (sp[=u] r[i^]*[u^]s), a. [L. spurius.] 1. Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; counterfeit; false; adulterate. [1913 Webster] 2. Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue. Her… …

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  • 26Spurious-free dynamic range — (SFDR) is a measure used to specify analog to digital and digital to analog converters (ADCs and DACs, respectively).SFDR is defined as the ratio of the RMS value of the carrier frequency (maximum signal component) at the input of the ADC or DAC… …

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  • 27Spurious Free Dynamic Range — Spurious Free Dynamic Range, SFDR, zu deutsch etwa „Störungsfreier dynamischer Bereich“, ist eine auch im deutschsprachigen Raum gebräuchliche Angabe, um den Abstand der größten Störung zur Grundschwingung in einem Spektrum anzugeben. Innerhalb… …

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  • 28spurious issue — index bastard Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 29Spurious relationship — In statistics, a spurious relationship (or, sometimes, spurious correlation or spurious regression) is a mathematical relationship in which two events or variables have no direct causal connection, yet it may be wrongly inferred that they do, due …

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  • 30Spurious wakeup — In the POSIX thread API, the function pthread cond wait is used to wait on a condition variable. A naive programmer might expect that when a thread returns from this function, the condition associated with the condition variable will be true.… …

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