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characteristic curve

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characteristic curve
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(Miscellaneous Technologies / Photography) Photog a graph of the density of a particular photographic material plotted against the logarithm of the exposure producing this density
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Noun1.characteristic curve - (electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parameters
electronics - the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices
graph, graphical record - a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes
frequency-response characteristic, frequency-response curve - (electronics) a graph of frequency response with signal amplitude or gain plotted against frequency


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The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was used to test the accuracy of continuously coded and categorized predictors.
Matching accuracy is defined as a combination of two quantities: the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve and contrast between the matched region and its background.
With the script's characteristic curves, sweeping strokes and color choices for tashkeel (the vowel accents decorating Arabic script), viewers get a bold piece of calligraphy.
 
 
 
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