English Explanatory Dictionary

boxcar function

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any function whose value is zero except for a finite part of its argument for which it has a constant non-zero value.

Word forms

boxcar function boxcar functions

Etymology

Due to the graph resembling a rectangular boxcar on a railway line.

Related words

square wave
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