Noun
compander (plural companders)
Any device used for companding.
The final compander achieved a very mild gain error recovery due to the natural truncation rounding error caused by twelve bit arithmetic. Source: Internet
The two most popular compander functions used for telecommunications are the A-law and μ-law functions. Source: Internet
It was found the modified compander resulted in a less than perfect step size at most signal levels and the fast gain error recovery increased the noise as determined by actual listening tests as compared to simple signal to noise measurements. Source: Internet
The electronic circuit that does this is called a compander and works by compressing or expanding the dynamic range of an analog electronic signal such as sound recorded by a microphone. Source: Internet