detent

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You can reduce its aggressiveness by setting the picture slider on the front panel to its middle detent, and switching the detail-norm-edit switch to edit, but some DNR luma / chroma processing is always on.

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  1. noun A catch or lever that locks the movement of one part of a mechanism.

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  • You can reduce its aggressiveness by setting the picture slider on the front panel to its middle detent, and switching the detail-norm-edit switch to edit, but some DNR luma / chroma processing is always on. —  VideoHelp.com Forum
  • Such approaches can be highly inaccurate, especially when non-sinusoidal excitation is used, and when there are pronounced non-linear effects involved - such as detent torque. —  Electronicstalk - electronics industry news
  • Problems may arise, as the rotor will tend to oscillate briefly on each step as a result of a number of system dynamics - including kinetic energy (momentum) - that cause the rotor to overshoot the detent position. —  All DN headlines
  • This leads to missed steps, as the rotor never truly comes to rest at the previous detent position. —  All DN headlines
  • Note these are the full-step points corresponding to the detent positions used by the two-phase-on, full-step switching algorithm discussed earlier. —  All DN headlines
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  1. French détente, a loosening, from Old French destente, from feminine past participle of destendre, to release : des-, de- + tendre, to stretch (from Latin tendere; see ten- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Late Latin detentus, a holding back, from Latin detinere, past participle detentus, hold back: see detain.
 

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