Term: Peak signal-to-noise ratio

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Term: Peak signal-to-noise ratio

Definition:

The ratio between the maximum power of a signal and the power of noise contained in the signal. Often abbreviated as PSNR.

Category:

General

Resource:

Wikipedia definition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSNR

See also:

Signal-to-noise ratio