boxcar function
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English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Due to the graph resembling a rectangular boxcar on a railway line.
Noun
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boxcar function (plural boxcar functions )
- (calculus , geometry ) Any function whose value is zero except for a finite part of its argument for which it has a constant non-zero value.
- Hypernym: window function
See also
[edit ]Further reading
[edit ]- boxcar function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia