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Noise Temperature

The amount of thermal noise present in a system. Used in microwave communications and sometimes radar, it is the equivalent of noise figure expressed in Kelvins (e.g., an amplifier with 1.5 dB noise figure has an effective noise temperature of 120 K).

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