![]() ![]() ![]() ( intransitive ) To wander from the path of duty or rectitude to err.( intransitive ) To wander from company or outside proper limits to rove or roam at large to go astray.1642, John Denham, Cooper's Hill Thames among the wanton valleys strays.( intransitive ) To wander, as from a direct course to deviate, or go out of the way.Stray ( third-person singular simple present strays, present participle straying, simple past and past participle strayed) 1976, IEEE Power Engineering Society, Nuclear Power: Health, Safety, Waste Disposal (page 20)Įlectromagnetic interference EMI, radio interference RI, television interference TVI, and radio frequency interference RFI, can all be described as a confusion to received radio signals due to strays and undesirable signals.įrom Middle English strayen, partly from Old French estraier, from Vulgar Latin via strata, and partly from Middle English strien, streyen, streyȝen ( “ to spread, scatter ” ), from Old English strēġan ( “ to strew ” ).Mathisson, Radio Acoustic Ranging (page 652)īecause of their shortness, such signals are usually easy to distinguish from the bomb returns but, when such a stray is recorded just before the bomb return, too close to be distinguished by ear This invention relates broadly to radio communication, but more particularly to a radio receiving system used for the reception of high frequency current signals wherever they are subject to interference from "static" or strays of an untuned or aperiodic character. 1926, Popular Radio (volume 9, page 191).( radio ) An instance of atmospheric interference.( historical ) An area of common land for use by domestic animals generally.An act of wandering off or going astray.One who is lost, literally or figuratively.Any domestic animal that has no enclosure nor proper place and company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost an estray.Pronunciation įrom Middle English stray, strey, from Anglo-Norman estray, stray, Old French estrai, from the verb (see below). ![]()
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