
Given the following passage

"During encoding, 576 time-domain samples are taken and are transformed to 576 frequency-domain samples.[clarification needed] If there is a transient, 192 samples are taken instead of 576. This is done to limit the temporal spread of quantization noise accompanying the transient. (See psychoacoustics.)",

answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text.

Question: How does the transient noise spread? 

temporal
