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Shannon noun. M20.
[C. E. Shannon (1916-2001), US mathematician.]
Used attrib. and in possess. to designate various concepts arising from Shannon's work in information theory.
Shannon's theorem, Shannon's second theorem, Shannon's capacity theorem a theorem regarding the ability of a noisy channel to carry information with no more than an arbitrarily small frequency of errors.