ADC
n. countablen. Stands for Analog-to-Digital Converter. A piece of hardware that changes real-world signals, like sound or light, into numbers that a computer can understand.
n. Abbreviation for Analog-to-Digital Converter. An electronic circuit or device that converts a continuous physical quantity, such as voltage, into a discrete digital number for processing by a computer.
The microphone uses an ADC to record your voice.
High-quality audio recording requires an ADC with a high sampling rate to capture every detail of the performance.
In modern telecommunications, the precision of the ADC determines the fidelity of the signal reconstruction, as any quantization error introduced during conversion cannot be fully reversed by software.
Commonly used as an acronym in technical documentation; often functions as a modifier in noun phrases like 'ADC chip' or 'ADC resolution'.