A figure of merit has been introduced to account for any deviation by a given machine from the optimum performance capability.
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The figure of merit, Z \ bar { T }, depends on doping concentration and temperature of the material of interest.
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Carson broadened the radio engineers'concept of signal-to-static ratio to a more general signal-to-noise ratio and introduced a figure of merit for noise.
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Also, the impulse response ( in either time or frequency domains ) usually yields insight to relevant figures of merit of the system.
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In the case of most lenses, the point spread function ( PSF ) is a pretty common figure of merit for evaluation purposes.
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In 1953, transistors were only five years old, and they were the only successful, three-terminal two-port device was an invariant figure of merit.
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A related figure of merit is the " fractional delay ", the time a pulse is delayed divided by the total time of the pulse.
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Consequently, the United States bases export regulations not on the generations, but on a calculated factor called " figure of merit " ( FOM ).
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The discussion Talk : Amplifier figures of merit # Amplifier topic organization ( which happened when the article was still named Amplifier ) shows what happened.
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Later analysis suggested that a more useful figure of merit is the " triple product " of density, confinement time, and plasma temperature " T ".
