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Where does clipping collide?

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clipping2 CONSTRUCTSLexical clippingBAUER · WORD-FORMATIONSignal clippingOPPENHEIM · SATURATION

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Linguistics

Shortening a word by lopping off part of it

In linguistics, clipping is a word-formation process that creates a new, shorter word by cutting off part of a longer one while keeping its meaning, as when laboratory becomes lab or influenza becomes flu. Bauer's English Word-Formation classifies clipping among the processes of the lexicon and distinguishes fore-, back-, and middle-clipping by which part is dropped. The referent is a morphological shortening that yields a new lexeme, and it is a different construct from an electrical signal driven past its limits, sharing only the image of something being cut short.[1]

Unit
Not applicable
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Identified by the shortened form and which portion of the source word is retained (fore-, back-, or middle-clipping)

Signal processing

A signal flattened against a hard limit

In signal processing, clipping is the distortion that occurs when a signal's amplitude exceeds the maximum a device or number format can represent, so the peaks are flattened at a fixed limit and the waveform is truncated. Oppenheim and Schafer's Discrete-Time Signal Processing treats this saturation nonlinearity and the harmonics and errors it introduces. The referent is an amplitude-limiting distortion that removes a signal's crests, measured by how far and how often the signal is driven into the limit, and it is unrelated to shortening a word, joined to it only by the shared meaning of being cut off at the top.[2]

Unit
The clipping threshold and the fraction of the signal driven past it
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Detected as flattened peaks and added harmonic distortion; quantified by clipping threshold and percentage of clipped samples

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References

  1. Bauer, L. (1983). English word-formation. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521284929
  2. Oppenheim, A. V., & Schafer, R. W. (2010). Discrete-time signal processing (3rd ed.). Pearson. ISBN 9780131988422

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