In
telecommunications, distortion-limited operation is the condition prevailing when
distortion of a received
signal, rather than its attenuated amplitude (or
power), limits performance under stated operational conditions and limits.
''Note:'' Distortion-limited operation is reached when the
system
A system is a group of Interaction, interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole. A system, surrounded and influenced by its environment (systems), environment, is described by its boundaries, ...
distorts the shape of the
waveform beyond specified limits. For linear systems, distortion-limited operation is equivalent to
bandwidth-limited operation.
References
Telecommunications engineering
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