pertaining to an operating characteristic, a device, an electrical network or a transmission medium for which: - at a specified output port, the signal resulting from an arbitrary input signal applied to a given port is such that, when the input signal is increased by a numerical factor, the output signal does not increase by the same factor over t... Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&ievref=702-07-55
The condition of obtaining a change at the output of the device which is not proportional to the change occurring at the input, causing distortion.
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