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by DagAgren 2310 days ago
It is a term often used for DCT-transformed data. DCT, in this case, breaks the image down into basically an average colour of the whole image, referred to as the DC component, and a bunch of waves that make up the detail of the image, referred to as AC components.

https://github.com/woltapp/blurhash/blob/master/Algorithm.md