Golay may refer to:
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Jeanne Golay
Jeanne Marie Golay (born April 16, 1962) is an American former road bicycle racing professional from Coral Gables, Florida. She won the 1992, 1994 and 1995 United States National Road Race Championships, and the 1992 world team time-trial cha ...
(born 1962), bicycle professional
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Helen Golay (born 1931), American woman who murdered two homeless men for life insurance money
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Marcel J. E. Golay (1902–1989), mathematician, physicist and information theorist
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Dolphy
Rodolfo Vera Quizon Sr. (; July 25, 1928 – July 10, 2012), better known by his stage names Dolphy, Pidol, and Golay, was a Filipino comedian and actor. He is widely regarded as the country's "King of Comedy" for his comedic talent embodied ...
(1928-2012), Filipino actor and comedian, used Golay as his screen name in 1944.
Several devices and systems were named after Marcel J. E. Golay:
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Golay cell
The Golay cell is a type of opto-acoustic detector mainly used for infrared spectroscopy. It consists of a gas-filled enclosure with an infrared absorbing material and a flexible diaphragm or membrane. When infrared radiation is absorbed, it heats ...
, a detector for infrared spectroscopy
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Savitzky–Golay filter
A Savitzky–Golay filter is a digital filter that can be applied to a set of digital data points for the purpose of smoothing the data, that is, to increase the precision of the data without distorting the signal tendency. This is achieved, in ...
, a signal processing filter
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Binary Golay code, an error-correcting code
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Ternary Golay code
In coding theory, the ternary Golay codes are two closely related error-correcting codes.
The code generally known simply as the ternary Golay code is an 1, 6, 53-code, that is, it is a linear code over a ternary alphabet; the relative distan ...
, an error-correcting code
Places:
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Golay, Kutch
Golay or Gholay ગોલાય ગામની દક્ષિણમાં ગુનાઊ ઉત્તર-પૂર્વમાં રોહારા ગામ છે અને પશ્ચિમમાં ભગોડી વાંઢ અને ...
, a village in Kutch,
Gujarat
Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...
, India
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