line noise

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Spurious characters due to signal noise in a communications link.
  2. Data that looks random, as when outputting a binary file as text.
  3. Incomprehensible source code or other textual material (often due to terseness or overuse of operators).

Word forms

line noise
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