English Explanatory Dictionary

shotnoise

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

noise due to random variations in the number and velocity of electrons or photons in a device.

Word forms

shotnoise shot noise

Etymology

Originally Schottky noise, after Walter H. Schottky, German physicist.

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