"duty cycle" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-duty cycle.wav [Southern-England] Forms: duty cycles [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} duty cycle (plural duty cycles)
  1. (electronics) The ratio between the amount of time in which the clock's signal is high and the clock's period. Translations (Translations): pulssisuhde (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-duty_cycle-en-noun-4ME7YZ85 Categories (other): Electronics, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 40 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 81 19 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 65 35 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 68 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 79 21 Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics Disambiguation of 'Translations': 72 28
  2. (engineering, generally) The ratio between the percentage of time when a device is performing its work (duty) and the percentage of time when it is not working (e.g., idling, coasting, or turned off).
    Sense id: en-duty_cycle-en-noun-MQZQvJch Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, Engineering Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

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