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Sign in to savethumb|right|In The Signal by William Powell Frith, a woman sends a signal by waving a white handkerchief.
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A signal is a gesture or action—like waving a handkerchief—used to communicate a message to someone else. Signals matter because they allow people to convey information or instructions across distances without speaking.
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- Definitions
- Classification
- Analog and digital signals
- Analog signal
- Digital signal
- Energy and power
- Deterministic and random
- Even and odd
- Periodic
- Time discretization{{anchor|Discretization}}
- Amplitude quantization{{anchor|Quantization}}
- Examples
- Signal processing
- Signals and systems
- Gallery
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
thumb|right|In The Signal by William Powell Frith, a woman sends a signal by waving a white handkerchief.
A signal is both the process and the result of transmission of data over some media accomplished by embedding some variation. Signals are important in multiple subject fields, including signal processing, information theory and biology.