Companding

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-001268",
  "term": "Companding",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A technique used in telecommunications to compress and then expand an analog signal, reducing the dynamic range for transmission and restoring it upon reception. This process improves the signal-to-noise ratio for signals with a wide dynamic range, particularly in voice communication systems. It is often implemented using logarithmic compression and expansion curves, such as the A-law or mu-law algorithms.",
  "synonyms": [
    "compansion"
  ],
  "subject": "Energy and utilities",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Kompanding",
    "es": "compansión",
    "fr": "compandage"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/companding/"
}