reference tone

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reference tone [′ref·rəns ‚tōn]

(engineering)

Stable tone of known frequency continuously recorded on one track of multitrack signal recordings and intermittently recorded on signal track recordings by the collection equipment operators for subsequent use by the data analysts as a frequency reference.

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