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Shannon limit

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Shannon limit [′shan·ən ‚lim·ət]
(communications)
Maximum signal-to-noise ratio improvement which can be achieved by the best modulation technique as implied by Shannon's theorem relating channel capacity to signal-to-noise ratio.
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