Keyword | Definition |
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amplitude | a measure of how loud or quiet a sound is at any moment in time |
audio stream | a sequence of bits that represents sound by describing the amplitude of each sample in turn |
bit | an individual binary digit (0 or 1) |
bit rate | the number of bits that are needed to represent each second of sound |
sample rate | the number of samples recorded every second |
sample size | the number of bits that are need to represent each individual sample |