Look up figure of merit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A figure of merit (FOM) is a performance metric that characterizes the performance of a device...

Johnson's figure of merit is a measure of suitability of a semiconductor material for high frequency power transistor applications and requirements. More...

junction}}}.} The maximum efficiency of a thermoelectric device is typically described in terms of its device figure of merit Z T {\displaystyle ZT} where the...

Illinois, United States Merit Academy, a high school in Springville, Utah, United States Figure of merit Merit (law) Merit, Texas, an unincorporated...

Goggle (GPNVG-18) Figure of merit (FoM) is a quantitative measure of a NVD's effectiveness and clarity. It is calculated using the number of line pairs per...

rating) system was a figure of merit developed by AMD, Cyrix, IBM Microelectronics and SGS-Thomson in the mid-1990s as a method of comparing their x86...

coefficient (S). The efficiency of a given material to produce a thermoelectric power is simply estimated by its “figure of merit” zT = S2σT/κ. For many years...

State of health (SoH) is a figure of merit of the condition of a battery (or a cell, or a battery pack), compared to its ideal conditions. The unit of SoH...

product (designated as GBWP, GBW, GBP, or GB) for an amplifier is a figure of merit calculated by multiplying the amplifier's bandwidth and the gain at...

The Lawson criterion is a figure of merit used in nuclear fusion research. It compares the rate of energy being generated by fusion reactions within the...

Noise figure (NF) and noise factor (F) are figures of merit that indicate degradation of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) that is caused by components in...

thrust and weight is often published and used as a figure of merit for quantitative comparison of a vehicle's initial performance. The thrust-to-weight...

fitness function is a particular type of objective function that is used to summarise, as a single figure of merit, how close a given design solution is...

Loss exchange ratio is a figure of merit in attrition warfare, and is generally defined as the ratio of the losses (e.g., casualties) sustained by each...

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statistic, indicator, or figure of merit used to describe or measure something quantitatively, including: Performance indicator, a measure of an organization's...

commonly used figure of merit for estimating the amount of shock experienced by a naval target from an underwater explosion as a function of explosive charge...

subthreshold slope. Subthreshold slope is used as a figure of merit for the switching efficiency of a transistor. In digital circuits, subthreshold conduction...

joule). It is commonly used in link budgets as the denominator of the important figure-of-merit ratios, such as carrier-to-noise-density ratio as well as Eb/N0...

reception) is an important figure in system TVRO design. Below are certain parameters used in CNR computation. Figure of merit is given as f = g t {\displaystyle...

Antenna gain-to-noise-temperature (G/T) is a figure of merit in the characterization of antenna performance, where G is the antenna gain in decibels at...

knowledge base application Request Tracker Ray Tracing Figure of Merit, often used in the context of ray tracing or BRL-CAD RTFM (album), an album by Poster...

or double negative metamaterials (DNM). A predominant figure of merit[clarification needed] of slow light schemes is the bandwidth-delay product (BDP)...

(bhp/cc) is a figure of merit that is used to indicate the 'state of tune' of an internal combustion engine. It is defined as the ratio of the engine's...

photodetector is a figure of merit used to characterize performance, equal to the reciprocal of noise-equivalent power (NEP), normalized per square root of the sensor's...

numerical figure of merit upon which to base pride or derision, whether or not it is relevant to actual use of the device. Don Williams: "Debunking of Specsmanship:...

loss is a figure of merit for an electronic filter and this data is generally specified with a filter. Insertion loss is defined as a ratio of the signal...

detail or sapped of the will to continue. In the field of naval artillery, the weight of a broadside was long used as a figure of merit of a warship's firepower...

rotor, but the concept was not pursued further. The hover efficiency ("Figure of Merit") was 0.72 whereas for modern helicopters it is around 60%. Intermeshing...

telecommunications, a third-order intercept point (IP3 or TOI) is a specific figure of merit associated with the more general third-order intermodulation distortion...