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(electricity) Initialism of alternating current. [(physics) An electric current in which the direction of flow of the electrons reverses periodically.]
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(electronics) Any component that is not passive. See Passivity (engineering).
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(electronics) An appliance or circuit that increases the strength of a weak electrical signal without changing the other characteristics of the signal.
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(radio) A method of sending information by modifying (modulating) the intensity (amplitude) of a carrier wave.
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An apparatus to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.
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An electronic amplifier device invented in 1906, the forerunner of the triode.
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(electronics) automatic amplification of a signal
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(countable, electronics) A device used to power electric devices, consisting of a set of electrically connected electrochemical or, archaically, electrostatic cells. A single such cell when used by itself.
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(electronics) A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.
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Distortion in an electronic circuit caused by the potential applied across elements to provide a zero signal.
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One tenth of a nautical mile.
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(electronics) An electronic component capable of storing electrical energy in an electric field; especially one consisting of two conductors separated by a dielectric.
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The creative short-circuiting of electronic devices such as children's toys and small digital synthesizers in order to create new musical or visual instruments.
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(radio) interference caused by two stations transmitting on the same frequency
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(physics) A detector of radio waves used in very early radio receivers.
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(electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
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(electronics) A switching circuit whose output is determined solely by some combination of its concurrent inputs.
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(electrical engineering) A form of digital circuit logic where the current outputs are entirely a function of the current inputs, without having a memory of previous inputs or states.
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(electronics) The reversal of an electric current.
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An electronic device that compares two voltages, currents or streams of data.
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(electronics) A capacitor.
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(electronics) A capacitor.
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(electronics) A pair of transistors with the emitter of one connected to the base of the other and the collectors connected together, acting as a transistor with greater amplification.
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A current amplifier that utilizes a push-pull transistor
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(electronics) A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.
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(signal processing) The ratio of maximum permitted frequency deviation, σₘₐₓ to the maximum permitted modulating frequency, fiₘₐₓ.
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(electronics) A technique utilized to increase linearity or compensate for nonlinearity in power amplifiers.
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(electronics) An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier.
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(electrical engineering) Having separate electronic components, such as individual diodes, transistors and resistors, as opposed to integrated circuitry.
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(electronics) a component with just one circuit element, either passive (resistor, capacitor, inductor) or active (transistor or vacuum tube).
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(physics) Any of several electronic devices that convert some property of a signal into an amplitude whose value is proportional to the difference between the value of the input signal and that of a standard.
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(electronics) Describing a circuit or component which is either positive-edge-triggered or negative-edge-triggered.
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The skill and facility necessary to exploit the potential of modern electronic media.
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(informal, usually with definite article) Electricity; the electricity supply.
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(anatomy) An effector organ found in some fish (especially electric eels and electric catfish), that can produce a voltage large enough to aid in predation.
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An electric circuit having at least one component that manipulates the voltage or current in the circuit
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(informal) Somewhat electronic.
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(in the plural) A device or devices which require the flow of electrons through conductors and semiconductors in order to perform their function; devices that operate on electrical power (battery or outlet)
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Electrical technology and engineering.
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(electronics) One terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
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(electronics) A logic family that achieves high speed by using an overdriven BJT differential amplifier with single-ended input.
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An antenna designed by a computer program that repeatedly generates new candidate shapes and discards the least successful.
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A form of frequency modulation in which digital information is transmitted through discrete changes of the frequency of a carrier wave.
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(informal) ingenious and complicated electronic devices collectively
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(electronics) A kind of logic signaling used to drive electronic backplane buses, having a voltage swing between 0.4 and 1.2 volts—much lower than that used in TTL and CMOS logic—and symmetrical parallel resistive termination.
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An electronic oscillator circuit in which the oscillation frequency is determined by a tuned circuit consisting of capacitors and inductors.
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(electronics) A passive device that introduces inductance into an electrical circuit.
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(electronics) A commonly available electronic component that may be readily replaced with similar ones, often made by different manufacturers.
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(electronics) An integration type for digital circuits that contain tens of thousands of transistors providing thousands of logic gates per chip.
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(electronics) Describing a circuit or component whose output is sensitive to changes of the inputs only so long as the clock input's signal is high.
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(electronics) A circuit that allows signals below a specified input threshold to pass unaffected while attenuating the peaks of stronger signals.
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(historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
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(plural only) Microelectronic devices as a non-specific mass.
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(electronics) A device which produces an output signal when a varying voltage applied at one input exceeds an adjustable constant voltage applied at another
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(physics) Any of several devices used to enhance a signal
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(electronics) An electronic circuit used to implement a variety of simple two-state systems such as oscillators, timers, and flip-flops.
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(electronics) The point in time when a signal's value becomes low.
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Alternative form of negative-edge-triggered [(electronics) Describing a circuit or component that changes its state only when an input signal becomes low.]
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(electronics) A monostable multivibrator.
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(electronics) A certain active circuit element useful in creating various kinds of amplifiers and filters.
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Alternative form of op-amp [(electronics) A certain active circuit element useful in creating various kinds of amplifiers and filters.]
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(electronics) A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
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(electronics) A circuit element or property that is present within an electrical component, and has a negative effect on the performance of the circuit.
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(electronics) Any component that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.
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(biology) The finding of a path to a destination, such as by neuronal axons or developing cells.
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The allocation or planning of a path.
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A method of sending information by modifying (modulating) the difference in phase (fraction of a wave length) between a signal and a reference.
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(electronics) An optoelectronic device that converts a DC input signal into a higher frequency signal.
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(electronics) a MOSFET with a p-type channel (a semiconductor doped with an element creating a surplus of holes).
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Alternative form of positive-edge-triggered [(electronics) Describing a circuit or component that changes its state only when an input signal becomes high.]
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(physics) A feedback loop in which the output of a system is amplified with a net positive gain and added to the input signal before the main amplifier.
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(electronics) Describing a circuit or component that changes its state only when an input signal becomes high.
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(context, electronics) belonging to the time (late 1960s) after individual transistors were replaced by integrated circuits
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After the development of electronics.
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(electricity) A technology and engineering field within electronics, concerning electric power delivery and distribution.
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Any of a number of techniques whereby a series of information-carrying quantities occurring at discrete instances of time is encoded into a corresponding series of electromagnetic carrier pulses.
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An electronic circuit in which two transistors (one as current source, one as sink) are used to amplify a signal
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(radio, telecommunications) The storage and retrieval of data using tags attached to individual packages, animals or people; the tags contain an integrated circuit to store and process the data, and an antenna to transmit and receive such data.
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(dated) A substance or device that has its conductivity altered in some way by electric waves, such as a coherer
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Anything that produces radiomodulation
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Any of several electronic devices that receive electromagnetic waves, or signals transmitted as such.
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(artificial neural networks) The activation function f(x)= max (0,x), where x is the input to a neuron.
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(electronics) A rule describing the relationship between the number of external signal connections to a logic block (i.e. the number of "pins") with the number of logic gates in the logic block.
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A resonant electronic circuit
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(electrical engineering) The electric current in a circuit which flows back to its source, or to earth.
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A device composed of an odd number of NOT gates whose output oscillates between two voltage levels, representing true and false. The NOT gates, or inverters, are attached in a chain; the output of the last inverter is fed back into the first.
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(electronics) An amplifier whose output is a constant multiple of its input.
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(computing) Synonym of flicker fixer
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(electronics) A comparator circuit with hysteresis implemented by applying positive feedback to the non-inverting input of a comparator or differential amplifier. It converts an analog signal to a digital one.
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(electrical engineering) A form of digital circuit logic where the current outputs depend not only on the current inputs, but also on a memory of past inputs and states.
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(radio) A modification of amplitude modulation that modulates the output signal on a single sideband only, as opposed to both sidebands.
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The sound generated by the alternation of current in electronic devices.
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(electronics, of an electronic component) Based upon semiconductors, as distinct from older technologies such as vacuum tubes.
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(electronics) A kind of transistor developed in the 1950s.
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A form of electromagnetic communication in which the signal frequency or bandwidth is spread beyond that required, rendering it more difficult to intercept or jam, or to send multiple signals over the same band
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(historical) A very early mechanical calculator (completed in 1694) invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
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electronic control of the structures of a system
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Superheterodyne receiver.
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(electronics) A theoretical construct that can be used to solve a circuit.
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(electronics) Being a form of regenerative radio receiver that uses a second lower-frequency oscillation to provide single-device circuit gains
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superheterodyne receiver
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The circuit of an oscilloscope used to track the time dimension.
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(electronics) (of a circuit, electronic, etc.) Made with thin films deposited on a ceramic or glass substrate.
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(semiconductors) A solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals, which can be used for amplification, switching, voltage stabilization, signal modulation, and many other functions.
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Built using solid state components such as transistors.
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Alternative form of triac [(electronics) A three-terminal electronic component that conducts current in either direction when triggered; a bidirectional triode thyristor.]
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(electronics) A pulse in an electronic circuit that initiates some component.
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(electronics) (often attributive) A transistor that has a single junction.
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(electronics) An electronic component having a variable resistance; used to protect circuits against power surges.
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(electronics, also V_(CC)) Common Collector Voltage; the positive supply voltage for an integrated circuit containing bipolar junction transistors.
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(electronics) A passive linear circuit that produces an output voltage that is a fraction of its input voltage.
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(electronics) A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.
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(biology) The ability of a person or animal to orientate oneself and to navigate; the process used by a person or animal for orienting oneself and navigating.
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(electronics) A special type of comparator which provides an indication of whether the input voltage is within a specified range.
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