Dirac comb

noun

Dirac comb

noun

Etymology Named after English physicist Paul Dirac. The functions, when plotted visually, resemble the teeth of a comb.

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Mathematics, Sciences A periodic tempered distribution constructed from Dirac delta functions for some given period. It allows both continuous and discrete phenomena to be represented in a single framework.

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