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(signal processing) An spurious signal generated as a technological artifact.
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Preventing jamming (communications interference).
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(electronics) A device that modifies a signal with a delayed copy of itself in order to detect any periodic signal hidden in the noise
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Any of various devices that automate a sampling process.
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(electronics) The pinout of a ball grid array integrated circuit.
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(computing) A digital circuit that can shift a word by a specified number of bits using only combinational logic, without any sequential logic.
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Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
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(television) The reduction of the brightness of the scanning beam to zero when it needs to be moved without updating the picture.
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(electronics) An electronic signal that is normally high or on, but goes low for a very short period and then returns to high. A low going spike.
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(electronics) A discrete-time analogue delay line that moves a signal along a line of capacitors, one step at each clock cycle.
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A device for the movement of electrical charge, usually from within the device to an area where the charge can be manipulated, for example by conversion into a digital value.
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(electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.
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(electronics) A passive electronic component with three or more ports, in which the ports can be accessed in such a way that when a signal is fed into any port it is transferred to the next port only
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(computing, electronics) a circuit that produces a timing signal for use in synchronizing a circuit's operation.
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(electronics) Any device used in companding
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(audio) A device that reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal.
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(telecommunications) Interference resulting from noise or unwanted signals entering a device by conductive coupling, i.e., by direct coupling.
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A device that converts an analogue to a digital signal, or vice versa.
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(electronics) Undesirable signals from a neighbouring transmission circuit; undesired coupling between circuits.
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(electronics) Equipped with a crowbar circuit.
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(electronics) An early radio receiver, having no electrical power supply except the radio waves themselves; it used a crystal of lead or cadmium sulphide and a wire (the cat's whisker) touching the crystal's surface.
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A mechanism in early radios to tap the coherer, mechanically disturbing the particles to reset it to the high resistance state.
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Any electronic system used to convert analog signals to digital (or vice versa)
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An electronic device that takes the serial output of a serializer and converts it back to parallel.
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(music) A unit that converts a high impedance signal to a low impedance signal to reduce interference, used to connect an instrument to a mixing console.
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(radio) A device that diagonalizes the branches of radio antenna in order to reduce fading
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(semiconductors, plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
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(electronics, technology) A field of electronics involving the study of digital signals and the engineering of devices that use or produce them.
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(electronics) A device that converts a finite resolution digital signal to an infinite resolution analog signal.
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An electronic device for separating a signal, frequency, etc., into two or more parts.
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Any electronic device that accomplishes downconversion
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(radio) An element of an antenna that receives power directly from the transmitter.
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Electronic items in general.
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(electronics) To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.
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An electronic audio device for altering the frequencies of sound recordings.
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The electronic oscillator that generates the carrier signal for a transmitter.
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an electronic circuit that produces an output frequency that is an integral multiple of an input frequency
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An electronic device used to generate a signal representing the periodic value of a given mathematical function, especially sine, square, triangle and sawtooth waveforms
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An electronic device for use in fuzzy logic circuits
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(electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
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(electronics) an integrated circuit that is a prefabricated silicon chip circuit with no particular function except standard functions like NAND or NOR logic gates, and other active devices.
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To produce heterodyne interference in a radio
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The act of transfering incoming energy into an electronic device.
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Any electronic device that sums a measurement over time.
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A device for adding intonation to synthesized speech.
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(electronics) An electronic logic circuit which inverts the phase of a signal
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(electronics) An electronic circuit that is like a flip-flop, except that it is level triggered instead of edge triggered.
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A device used to test and diagnose digital electronic systems.
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(electronics) A nonlinear electrical circuit that creates new frequencies from two signals applied to it.
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Alternative form of mode locking [(physics) The use of mode-locked lasers to generate ultrashort pulses of light]
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(electronics) A technical description of the connectivity of an electronic design.
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A tuned electronic circuit used to generate a continuous output waveform.
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(electronics) The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
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a sensitive, low-noise amplifier of high-frequency or microwave radio waves that utilizes an inductor or capacitor whose reactance varies periodically at a similar frequency
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(electronics) A transistor used as a switch to pass logic levels between nodes of a circuit, instead of as a switch connected directly to a supply voltage.
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A type of microwave network
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(electronics) an electronic circuit used to lock an oscillator in phase with an arbitrary input signal
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A form of phase modulation in which digital information is transmitted through discrete changes of the phase of a carrier wave.
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(electronics, transitive) To convert, by chopping, a DC (or slowly varying AC) input signal into a higher frequency signal.
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(electronics) The point in time when a signal's value becomes high.
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Any of various radio switching or filtering devices.
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An electronic circuit constructed on a printed circuit board
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(electronics) A flat board that holds chips and other electronic components in layers that interconnect via copper pathways, often called traces.
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(electronics) A pullup resistor.
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a device that recovers the modulating signal from a pulse modulated wave
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A device for the pulse modulation of a radio-frequency carrier signal
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A device used in radiosynthesis
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A radio receiver designed to counter the effects of multipath fading, using several sub-receivers called fingers that independently decode individual multipath components; they are recombined at a later stage.
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That part of several electromechanical devices that converts digital or analog information stored on a magnetic or optical medium into electrical signals
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Being a kind of circuit, much used in radio receivers, that allows an electronic signal to be amplified many times through a feedback loop.
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(electronics) An electronic device that receives a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power.
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An algorithm for retracking.
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(electronics) A signal processing function in which two signals (typically a complex signal and a less complex carrier such as a sine wave) are combined to yield an output.
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A device used to automatically activate and cycle the settings of electronic equipment for testing purposes.
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An electronic circuit that aggregates many signals into one.
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(electronics) A company that is licensed to manufacture and sell electronic components originally designed by another company (the first source).
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Any device that activates or deactivates the components of a machine or system according to a preplanned sequence (as in a washing machine, or central heating system).
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Any electronic system used to convert analog signals to digital (or vice versa)
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(electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
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(electronics, communication, mathematics) signal-to-noise ratio
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(radio technology) The suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of the receiver.
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(electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
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(computing) A form of coupling where modules share a composite data structure and use only parts of it.
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(electronics) A fault in a digital circuit, where a signal does not change as expected, but remains always in one state.
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A distinct part of an electrical or other circuit
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(electronics) Pertaining to a technique used in radio and television receivers to tune to a particular frequency, or to receivers using such a technique.
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(electronics) A method in which the electrical components are mounted directly onto the surface of a printed circuit board.
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(film editing) A device for aligning multiple film strips in a replay or editing device.
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A device consisting essentially of a variable inductance coil and condenser with a pair of adjustable spark balls, for attuning the time periods of antennae in wireless telegraphy.
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(electronics) Mounting scheme used for electronic components that involves the use of leads on the components that are inserted into holes drilled in printed circuit boards and soldered to pads on the opposite side.
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A communications signal technique in which the transmission time is varied according to a pseudorandom sequence, useful in antijamming etc.
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(computing theory) A short fragment of the trace of execution of a computer program, used in automated systems that attempt to understand and optimize source code.
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A device or instrument used to assist in making tracings.
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A form of atmospherics (radio interference) produced when the high-frequency components reach the receiver before the low-frequency components.
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Alternative form of wayfinding [(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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