[Elecraft] (no subject)

[Bill Coleman]

On Mar 27, 2010, at 5:30 PM, John Ragle wrote:

> This is not a "New Age" word at all. It refers to a process which has 
> been taken from one with */continuous/* variables (variable capacitors, 
> roller inductors) to one in which the L,C components are fixed, but 
> relays switch from one discrete value to another, as in most automatic 
> antenna tuners. ATUs are not "discrete" (can any of them keep a secret?) 
> but rather "discretized" --  big difference. I think you need a new 
> dictionary.

In the compression field, we generally used the word "quantize" for this process.

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