Spurious may refer to:
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Spurious relationship in statistics
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Spurious emission or
spurious tone in radio engineering
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Spurious key
In cryptography, unicity distance is the length of an original ciphertext needed to break the cipher by reducing the number of possible spurious keys to zero in a brute force attack. That is, after trying every possible key, there should be just ...
in cryptography
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Spurious interrupt
In digital computers, an interrupt (sometimes referred to as a trap) is a request for the processor to ''interrupt'' currently executing code (when permitted), so that the event can be processed in a timely manner. If the request is accepted, ...
in computing
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Spurious wakeup
A spurious wakeup happens when a thread wakes up from waiting on a condition variable that's been signaled, only to discover that the condition it was waiting for isn't satisfied. It's called spurious because the thread has seemingly been awakened ...
in computing
* ''Spurious'', a 2011 novel by
Lars Iyer
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