Noise power
# Noise power

In telecommunication, the term noise power has the following meanings:

* The measured total noise in a given bandwidth at the input or output of a device when the signal is not present; the integral of noise spectral density over the bandwidth
* The power generated by a random electromagnetic process.
* Interfering and unwanted power in an electrical device or system.
* In the acceptance testing of radio transmitters, the mean power supplied to the antenna transmission line by a radio transmitter when loaded with noise having a Gaussian amplitude-vs.-frequency distribution.
