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Johnson noise definition

☆ Johnson noise

thermal background noise in a radio receiver

Etymology: after J. B. Johnson, 20th-c. U.S. physicist

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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