boxcar function

English

Etymology

Due to the graph resembling a rectangular boxcar on a railway line.

Noun

boxcar function (plural boxcar functions)

  1. (calculus, geometry) Any function whose value is zero except for a finite part of its argument for which it has a constant non-zero value.
    Hypernym: window function

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