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pole of 2-D transfer matrix a pair of com- plex numbers (p 1 , p 2 ) T (z 1 , z 2 ) = N(z 1 , z 2 ) d(z 1 , z 2 ) N(z 1 , z 2 ) ∈ R p×m [ z 1 , z 2 ] that are the root of the 2-D polynomial 1 , z 2 ), i.e., d(p 1 , p 2 ) = 0, where R p×m [ z 1 , z 2 ] is the set of p × m polynomial matrices in z 1 and z 2 with real coefficients. pole pitch the angular distance (normally in electrical degrees) between the axes of two pole top pin a steel pin onto which a pin insulator is screwed. pole-coefficient sensitivity when a coef- ficient d k of the polynomial D(s) = d 0 + d 1 s + d 2 s 2 + . . . is a variable parameter then the roots of the polynomial are functions of S d k (p i ) = ∂p i ∂d k /d k = −d k p k i D 0 (p i ) The pole-coefficient sensitivity is frequently pole-top transformer generally a distri- bution transformer which is mounted atop a pole-zero plot a graphical representation of a Laplace transform is known as a pole- X(s) = N(s) D(s) can be specified by their roots. Thus, marking the N(s) and D(s) in the s-plane provides a powerful way of visualiz- polled interrupt a mechanism in which the CPU identifies an interrupting device by polling each device. See also polling sequencing through a group of pe- ripheral devices and checking the status of polychlorinated biphenyls chemical compounds added to insulating oils to im- polygon detection the detection of poly- gon shapes, often from corner signals or from polygonalization a method of represent- ing a contour by a set of connected straight polymer membrane type of structure used to mechanically modulate light. polynomial warp polynomial warping is a type of commonly used image processing polyphase filter bank a filter bank where the filters are implemented in terms of their The decimators can be moved ahead of the polyphase filters in polyphase representation a sequence representation. A sequence H (z) can be rep- resented by the summation of M sequences c 2000 by CRC Press LLC |