All the jargon you need to understand the world of Digital Signal Processing.
Every technical field has its technical terms.
However, Digital Signal Processing has a few historical contexts that amplify the obscurity of these terms:
Most DSP concepts are rooted in electrical engineering and physics. In some cases they are exact emulations of what happens in the analog world. Components like oscillators and filters existed long before anything digital came on the horizon. The Fourier transform was first described when studying heat transfer, not audio. So remember that the names and concepts make more sense when thinking about manipulating voltage than manipulating float values.
It's an academic field rooted in math and physics. Digital algorithms were first developed on mainframes with punch cards by scientists. Remember that academia incentivizes individuals to give a specific name to each and every novel variant of a concept, which results in large organic families of similar sounding terms which are often defined after their technical attributes rather than their pragmatic merits (see: filters).
Audio DSP is only one subfield of DSP. Many concepts and terminology are shared by other applied fields, such as power systems, control systems, finance, seismology, etc.
The main goal is to provide a useful, pragmatic and clear way to think about the term.
The definition should provide that critical but often difficult to find first "hook" for someone trying to wade through muddy waters to understand a term means and where it applies.
A learner might need their memory jogged. A learner might have terms confused and want to clarify the difference or relationship between terms. Or it might be their first time looking the term up and just want the high level concept and context.
The goal is not to teach how a concept works, illustrate its history or show details about it is applied. There are no long explanations, diagrams, illustrations or chunks of code.
Only that first hook...
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