aberration

en-noun

aberration (countable and uncountable, plural aberrations)

/ˌæb.əˈɹeɪ.ʃn̩/

A learned borrowing from Latin aberrātiō(n) (“relief, diversion”), first attested in 1594, from aberrō (“wander away, go astray”), from ab (“away”) + errō (“wander”). Compare French aberration. By surface analysis, aberrat(e) + -ion.

абера́ция

astronomy: small periodical change of position of heavenly bodies

(electronics) A defect in an image produced by an optical or electrostatic lens system.


PM

en-noun

PM (countable and uncountable, plural PMs)

permanent magnet
permanent magnet#English

(electronics) Initialism of permanent magnet.


KGB

(electronics) Initialism of known good board.


jiffy

Origin unknown; said to have been thieves’ cant for “lightning”. Also formerly written "giffy", to which a connection with gliff has been proposed. As a kind of envelope, a genericization of Jiffy bag.

unk

unknown

(electronics) The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second).


decade

From Middle English decade, from Old French decade, from Late Latin decādem (“(set of) ten”), from Ancient Greek δεκάς (dekás), from δέκα (déka, “ten”). In reference to a span of ten years, originally a clipping of the phrase decade of years. By surface analysis, deca- + -ade. Doublet of decad.

teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties

Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties

A group, set, or series of ten , particularly:

(electronics) A set of ten electronic devices used to represent digits.

(electronics) A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.

dekadi

electronics: set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected to provide even increments between one and ten


RAM

random-access memory
random access memory#English

(electronics, computing) Acronym of random-access memory.

ՕՀՍ

random access memory — see also random access memory

ΜΤΠ

μνήμη τυχαίας προσπέλασης f (mními tychaías prospélasis)


AMPS

(electronics) Advanced Mobile Phone System, American Mobile Phone System, Analog Mobile Phone System.


CDMA

Code Division Multiple Access
wikipedia:Code division multiple access

(electronics) Initialism of Code Division Multiple Access.


sound card

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(computer hardware) A computer hardware device used for generating and capturing sounds.

聲卡

a computer hardware device used for generating and capturing sounds


GSM

(mobile telephony) Initialism of Global System for Mobile communications.


wireless

en-noun

wireless (usually uncountable, plural (dated) wirelesses)

If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.

(uncountable, networking) Wireless connectivity to a computer network.

безжично свързване

wireless connectivity to a computer network


mobile phone

A portable telephone that connects with the telephone network over radio wave transmission.

行动电话

hàng-thung thien-fa, hàng-thûng thien-fa

GSM

note: often used for mobile phones that are not technically GSM


mobile

en-adj

mobile (comparative more mobile, superlative most mobile)

more mobile (comparative)
most mobile (superlative)

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”).

der

mobile number

mobile internet

A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.

2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):

Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.

matkapuhelin-

pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones


mobile

→ Japanese: モバイル (mobairu)

→ Kurtöp: མོ་བའིལ (mobail)

→ Persian: موبایل (mobâil)

Mobiles squerking, mobiles chirping / Take the money and run

2000, “Idioteque”, in Kid A, performed by Radiohead:

(telephony, UK, Ireland) Ellipsis of mobile phone.

there are many business opportunities in mobile

(uncountable, Internet) The internet accessed via mobile devices.


clock

en-noun

clock (countable and uncountable, plural clocks)

c. 1350–1400, Middle English clokke, clok, cloke, from Middle Dutch clocke (“bell, clock”), from Old Dutch *klokka, from Medieval Latin clocca, probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch, Old Irish cloc), either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (“to laugh, cackle”) (compare Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną (“to laugh”)).
Related to Old English clucge, Dutch klok, Saterland Frisian Klokke (“bell; clock”), Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke, Swedish klocka.
Doublet of cloak and cloche.

onomatopoeic

onomatopoeic

сахӏат

instrument to measure or keep track of time

chronometer

instrument used to measure or keep track of time

even a stopped clock is right twice a day

(electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.


false

en-verb

false (third-person singular simple present falses, present participle falsing, simple past and past participle falsed)

falses (present singular third-person)
falsing (participle present)
falsed (participle past)
falsed (past)

From Middle English false, fals, from Old English fals (“false; counterfeit; fraudulent; wrong; mistaken”), from Latin falsus (“counterfeit, false; falsehood”), perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). Reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman and Old French fals, faus. Compare Scots fals, false, Saterland Frisian falsk, German falsch, Dutch vals, Swedish and Danish falsk; all from Latin falsus. Displaced native Middle English les, lese, from Old English lēas (“false”); See lease, leasing. Doublet of faux.
The verb is from Middle English falsen, falsien, from Old French falser, from Latin falsō (“falsify”), itself also from falsus; compare French fausser (“to falsify, to distort”).

cog

(electronics, telecommunications, of a decoder) To incorrectly decode noise as if it were a valid signal.


word

en-noun

word (countable and uncountable, plural words)

desc

Chinese Pidgin English: word, 𭉉 (Chinese spelling)

From Middle English word, from Old English word, from Proto-West Germanic *word, from Proto-Germanic *wurdą, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰh₁om. Doublet of verb and verve; further related to vrata.

you get more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone

(telegraphy) A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.


port

en-verb

port (third-person singular simple present ports, present participle porting, simple past and past participle ported)

ports (present singular third-person)
porting (participle present)
ported (participle past)
ported (past)

From Old French porter, from Latin portāre (“carry”). Akin to transport, portable.

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

If you submit a request to port a number, and you list the name on the account as Bob Smith, but your local carrier has the number listed under your wife's name Mary Mahoney, the porting request is rejected.

2011, Stephen P. Olejniczak, Telecom For Dummies, page 131:

(telephony, transitive) To carry or transfer (an existing telephone number) from one telephone service provider to another.


die

From Middle English dee, from Old French de (Modern French dé), from Latin datum, from datus (“given”), the past participle of dō (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to lay out, to spread out”). Doublet of datum.
Replaced Old English tasul, tesul (“die”), from Latin tessella (“die, cube”).

der

The number of dies per wafer is basically the area of the wafer divided by the area of the die.

2002, John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 19:

Once the wafer has undergone the wafer-probe test, it is separated into individual dice by sawing or scribing and breaking. The dice are visually inspected, sorted, and readied for assembly into packages.

2009, Paul R. Gray, Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, 5th edition, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 159:

(semiconductors, plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.


penny

en-verb

penny (third-person singular simple present pennies, present participle pennying, simple past and past participle pennied)

pennies (present singular third-person)
pennying (participle present)
pennied (participle past)
pennied (past)

From Middle English penny, peny, from Old English peniġ, penniġ, penning (“penny”), from Proto-West Germanic *panning, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz, of uncertain origin (see that page for theories). Doublet of pfennig and fening.

(electronics) To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket.


router

→ Japanese: ルーター, ルータ

→ Korean: 라우터 (rauteo)

printed circuit board
printed circuit board

(electronics, electronic design automation) In integrated circuit or printed circuit board design, an algorithm for adding all wires needed to properly connect all of the placed components while obeying all design rules.


open

From Middle English open (“an aperture or opening”), from the verb (see Etymology 2 above). In the sports sense, however, a shortening of “open competition”.

inh

The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.

(electronics) A defect in an electrical circuit preventing current from flowing.


skew

The verb is derived from Middle English skeuen, skewe, skewen (“to run at an angle or obliquely; to escape”), from Old Northern French escuer [and other forms], variants of Old French eschuer, eschever, eschiver (“to escape, flee; to avoid”) (modern French esquiver (“to dodge (a blow), duck; to elude, evade; to slip away; to sidestep”)), from Frankish *skiuhan (“to dread; to avoid, shun”), from Proto-Germanic *skiuhijaną (“to frighten”). The English word is cognate with Catalan esquiu (“evasive, shy”), Danish skæv (“crooked, slanting; skew, wry”) (> Norwegian Bokmål skjev), Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”), Norwegian skeiv (“crooked, lopsided; oblique, slanting; distorted”), Saterland Frisian skeeuw (“aslant, slanting; oblique; awry”), and is a doublet of eschew.
The adjective and adverb are probably derived from the verb and/or from askew, and the noun is derived from either the adjective or the verb.

cog

One application for which an optical filter can play an important role is that of a wideband connection with low time skew. [...] One signal, the clock, needs to be distributed to all parts of a digital circuit to synchronize its action. The necessarily long path results in the danger of the clock signal arriving at the wrong time (clock skew), limiting the maximum frequency at which the circuit may be clocked.

1989, Ivan Andonovic, Deepak Uttamchandani, editors, Principles of Modern Optical Systems, volume 1, Norwood, Mass.: Artech House, →ISBN, page 501:

Until recently, there has been a great reluctance to alter the clock network and attempt a nonzero-skew solution. However, recently, an increasing number of designers have been willing to utilize skews for performance enhancement.

2004, Sachin Sapatnekar, “Clocking and Clock Skew Optimization”, in Timing, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, section 9.8 (Conclusion), page 205:

(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.

vääristymä

phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times


jack

→ Brazilian Portuguese: jegue

→ European Portuguese: jaque

Transferative use of the personal name Jack.
(cricket: eleventh batsman): An allusion to the jack in playing cards, which follows the 10.

náłbiil bijaadbee dahnádidlohí

device for raising and supporting a heavy object

jekker

military: coarse medieval coat of defense

telephone jack

(electronics) A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.


or

(logic, electronics) Alternative form of OR


boom

Borrowed from Dutch boom (“tree; pole”). Doublet of beam.

(electronics) The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.


PI

en-noun

PI (countable and uncountable, plural PIs)

(electronics) Initialism of power integrity.


PE

PE (countable and uncountable, plural PEs)

(electronics) Initialism of protective earthing.


NL

Coordinate term: DL

(telegraphy) Initialism of night letter.


SI

SI (countable and uncountable, plural SIs)

S.I.

statutory instrument, chiefly in citation

(electronics) Initialism of signal integrity.


NC

(electronics, of a relay) Initialism of normally closed.


MC

MC (countable and uncountable, plural MCs or MC's)

Coordinate term: MM

(electronics, audio) Initialism of moving coil, a type of phono cartridge.


PR

PR (countable and uncountable, plural PRs)


TX

en-verb

TX (third-person singular simple present TXes, present participle TXing, simple past and past participle TXed)

TXes (present singular third-person)
TXing (participle present)
TXed (participle past)
TXed (past)

(telecommunications, electronics) Abbreviation of transmit.


TX

(telecommunications, electronics) Abbreviation of transmitter.


VA

en-noun

VA (countable and uncountable, plural VAs)

vertical alignment
vertical alignment#English

(electronics) Initialism of vertical alignment (“LCD screen technology”).


TCO

(electronics) Initialism of transparent conducting oxide.


rail

→ Catalan: rail

→ Dutch: rail

→ French: rail

→ Japanese: レール (rēru)

→ Punjabi: ਰੇਲ (rel)

→ Spanish: raíl

→ Swahili: reli

→ Tibetan: རི་ལི (ri li, “train”)

From Middle English rail, rayl, *reȝel, *reȝol (found in reȝolsticke (“a ruler”)), partly from Old English regol (“a ruler, straight bar”) and partly from Old French reille; both from Latin regula (“rule, bar”), from regō (“to rule, to guide, to govern”); see regular. Doublet of regal, regula, rigol, and rule.

doublet

ISA devices draw power from the +5 V, −5 V, +12 V, and −12 V rails of the power supply unit.

There has been another, fairly gradual change in the ATX specification: Initially a lot of power was supplied on the 5V and 3.3V rails, but over time more and more power shifted to 12V because it's more efficient. Modern (ATX12V 2.x) PSUs supply most of their power on the 12V rail and not a lot on the 5V rail, which means a modern PSU may not be able to supply an old board, unless it's a really beefy PSU—because providing 500W on the 12V rail is of very little use to an AT or early ATX system.

2019 December 5, Michal Necasek, “Power Trouble”, in OS/2 Museum, archived from the original on 2022-09-25:

(electronics) A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.


leg

→ Finnish: legi

→ Hungarian: leg

From Middle English leg, legge, from Old Norse leggr (“leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz, *lagwijaz (“leg, thigh”) (see it for more).
Cognate with Scots leg (“leg”), Icelandic leggur (“leg, limb”), Norwegian Bokmål legg (“leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk legg (“leg”), Swedish lägg (“leg, shank, shaft”), Danish læg (“leg”), Lombardic lagi (“thigh, shank, leg”), Latin lacertus (“limb, arm”), Persian لنگ (leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term sċanca (Modern English shank).

der

piss on someone's leg and tell them it's raining

(telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.


input

en-noun

input (countable and uncountable, plural inputs)

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From Middle English inputten, equivalent to in- + put.

model with A/V input


race

race (countable and uncountable, plural races)

From Middle English race, partially from Old English rǣs (“a race, swift or violent running, rush, onset”), from Proto-West Germanic *rās; and partially from Old Norse rás (“a running, race”); both from Proto-Germanic *rēsō (“a course”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s- (“to flow, rush”). Cognate with Middle Low German râs (“a strong current”), Dutch ras (“a strong whirling current”), Danish ræs, Norwegian and Swedish ras, Norwegian rås.

cog

Many problems of oscillations and races are solved by this arrangement.

1989, R. Raghuram, Computer Simulation of Electronic Circuits, New Delhi: Wiley Eastern, →ISBN, page 181:

Because a race by definition depends on the timing being just wrong, you could test your program any number of times, never observe any misbehavior, and still have a user run into the problem.¶ This occurrence is not just a theoretical possibility: Real programs have race bugs and real users have encountered them, sometimes with consequences that have literally been fatal.

1999, Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, Karl Knight, “Java, Applets, and Concurrency”, in Concrete Abstractions, Brooks/Cole Publishing, →ISBN, page 622:

As the name implies, a race condition means that two processes are competing within the same time interval, and the race affects the integrity or correctness of the computing tasks.

2012, Charles P. Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Analyzing Computer Security, Prentice Hall, page 79:

(electronics, computing) A race condition; a bug or problem that occurs when two or more components attempt to use the same resource at the same time.


drive

en-noun

drive (countable and uncountable, plural drives)

[d̠ɹ̠ ̝ʷaɪv]

From Middle English driven, from Old English drīfan (“to drive, force, move”), from Proto-West Germanic *drīban, from Proto-Germanic *drībaną (“to drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots drive (“to drive”), North Frisian driwe (“to drive”), Saterland Frisian drieuwe (“to drive”), West Frisian driuwe (“to chase, drive, impel”), Dutch drijven (“to drive”), Low German drieven (“to drive, drift, push”), German treiben (“to drive, push, propel”), Norwegian Bokmål drive, Danish drive (“to drive, run, force”), Norwegian Nynorsk driva, Swedish driva (“to drive, power, drift, push, force”), Icelandic drífa (“to drive, hurry, rush”).

cog

(computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.

(computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.

jednotka

computing: apparatus for reading and writing to or from a storage device


machine

→ Ainu: マシン

→ Bengali: মেশিন (meśin)

→ Cowlitz: məšín

→ Hindustani: मशीन (maśīn) / مشین (maśīn)

→ Irish: meaisín

→ Japanese: マシン (mashin)

→ Korean: 머신 (meosin)

→ Maori: mīhini

→ Punjabi

Gurmukhi script: ਮਸ਼ੀਨ (maśīn)

Shahmukhi script: مشین (maśīn)

→ Swahili: mashine

→ Tok Pisin: masin

Borrowed from Middle French machine, from Latin māchina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), from Doric Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ (mākhanā́), cognate with Attic Greek μηχᾰνή (mēkhanḗ, “a machine, engine, contrivance, device”), from which comes mechanical. Displaced native Old English searu.

cog

perpetual motion machine of the first kind

perpetual motion machine of the second kind

Outline of machines on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

I called you earlier, but all I got was the machine.

(telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.


cell

Ellipsis of cell phone, itself a clipping of cellular phone, from cellular + phone.

(US, New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, informal) A cellular phone.

selfoon

informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone


straight

en-adj

straight (comparative straighter, superlative straightest)

straighter (comparative)
straightest (superlative)

→ Japanese: ストレート

From Middle English streight, streght, streiȝt, the past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”), from Old English streċċan (past participle ġestreaht, ġestreht), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Doublet of straught. Equivalent to stretch + -ed

der

“Was it a straight message?” Miss Jenny asked. The other said yes and she added: “Horace must have got rich, like the soldiers say all the Y.M.C.A. did. Well, if it has taught a man like Horace to make money, the war was a pretty good thing, after all.”

1964 [1929], William Faulkner, Sartoris (The Collected Works of William Faulkner), London: Chatto & Windus, page 23:

(telegraphy, historical, of a telegram) Sent at a full rate for immediate delivery; being a fast telegram.


ROM

en-noun

ROM (countable and uncountable, plural ROMs)

read-only memory
read-only memory#English

(electronics, computing) Acronym of read-only memory.


MDM

MDM (countable and uncountable, plural MDMs)

(electronics) Initialism of multiplexer-demultiplexer.


bridge

From Middle English brigge, from Old English brycġ (“bridge”), from Proto-Germanic *brugjō, *brugjǭ (“bridge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrēw- (“wooden flooring, decking, bridge”).
Cognate with Scots brig, brigg, breeg (“bridge”), Saterland Frisian Brääch (“bridge”), West Frisian brêge (“bridge”), Dutch brug (“bridge”), German Brücke (“bridge”), Danish brygge (“wharf”), Icelandic brygga (“pier”), Gaulish briua (“bridge”).
The verb is from Middle English briggen, from Old English brycġian (“to bridge, make a causeway, pave”), derived from the noun. Cognate with Dutch bruggen (“to bridge”), Middle Low German bruggen (“to bridge”), Old High German bruccōn (“to bridge”) (whence Modern German brücken).
The musical connection sense is a semantic loan from German Steg, from Old High German steg.

ацҳа

construction or natural feature that spans a divide

if someone told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it

(electronics) An unintended solder connection between two or more components or pins.

(electronics) Any of several electrical devices that measure characteristics such as impedance and inductance by balancing different parts of a circuit


solenoid

From French solénoïde, from Ancient Greek σωληνοειδής (sōlēnoeidḗs) (from σωλήν (sōlḗn, “channel, pipe”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs); see -oid).

(electronics) An electromechanical switch controlled by a solenoid; solenoid switch, relay.


random access memory

en-noun

random access memory (usually uncountable, plural random access memories)

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(computing, electronics) Computer memory, usually volatile, that stores program and data values during operation and in which each word of memory may be directly (randomly) accessed.

operativ yaddaş qurğusu

computer memory in which each byte of memory may be directly accessed — see also RAM

随机存取存储器

suíjī cúnqǔ cúnchǔqì, suíjī cúnqǔ cúnchúqì


base

base (countable and uncountable, plural bases)

acid

antonym(s) of “chemical compound that will neutralize an alkali”

From Middle English base, bas, baas, from Old French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis). Doublet of basis and bass.

أَسَاس

something from which other things extend

(electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).

ба́за

electronics: controlling terminal of a transistor


device

From Middle English devis, devise, devyce, devys, devyse, from Old French devis and devise, from Latin dīvīsus, past participle of dīvidō (“to divide”). Doublet of devise (noun).

(computer hardware) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.


gain

gain (countable and uncountable, plural gains)

From Middle English gayn, gain, gein (“profit, advantage”), from Old Norse gagn (“benefit, advantage, use”), from Proto-Germanic *gagną, *gaganą (“gain, profit", literally "return”), from Proto-Germanic *gagana (“back, against, in return”), a reduplication of Proto-Germanic *ga- (“with, together”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”).
Cognate with Icelandic gagn (“gain, advantage, use”), Swedish gagn (“benefit, profit”), Danish gavn (“gain, profit, success”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌴𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (gageigan, “to gain, profit”), Old Norse gegn (“ready”), dialectal Swedish gen (“useful, noteful”), Latin cum (“with”); see gain-, again, against. Compare also Middle English gaynen, geinen (“to be of use, profit, avail”), Icelandic and Swedish gagna (“to avail, help”), Danish gavne (“to benefit”).
The Middle English word was reinforced by Middle French gain (“gain, profit, advancement, cultivation”), from Old French gaaing, gaaigne, gaigne, a noun derivative of gaaignier, gaigner (“to till, earn, win”), from Frankish *waiþanōn (“to pasture, graze, hunt for food”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *waiþiz, *waiþō, *waiþijō (“pasture, field, hunting ground”); compare Old High German weidōn, weidanōn (“to hunt, forage for food”) (Modern German Weide (“pasture”)), Old Norse veiða (“to catch, hunt”), Old English wǣþan (“to hunt, chase, pursue”). Related to wide.

cog

There follows the high and low-frequency replay equalization, which normally involves two adjustments with a further control allowing the replay gain to be set.

1987, John Borwick, Sound recording practice, page 238:

(electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.


field

→ Japanese: フィールド (fīrudo)

From Middle English feeld, feld, from Old English feld, from Proto-West Germanic *felþu, from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”) or *pleth₂- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut).
Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fjild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German Feld (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”). Related also to Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at fold.

veld

land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country

fushë

sports: area reserved for playing a game

Euclidean domain ⊂ principal ideal domain ⊂ unique factorization domain

Noetherian domain ⊂ integral domain ⊂ commutative ring

Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.

(electronics, film, animation) Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal.


wire

en-noun

wire (countable and uncountable, plural wires)

→ Gulf Arabic: واير (wāyir)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: vaier, wire

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: vaier, wire

→ Swedish: vajer, wire

From Middle English wir, wyr, from Old English wīr (“wire, metal thread, wire-ornament”), from Proto-Germanic *wīraz (“wire”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁iros (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”).

score string

object used to keep the score in billiards

Another letter. "Friedrichswerks, Hamburg, Germany. We beg to acknowledge receipt of order for fifteen thousand Robots." [Telephone rings.] Hello! This is the Central Office. Yes. Certainly. Well, send them a wire. Good. [Hangs up telephone.] Where did I leave off?

c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 1:

“Oh, hadn’t I told you?” the other said quickly. “I had a wire yesterday. He landed in New York Wednesday. It was such a mixed-up sort of message, I never could understand what he was trying to tell me, except that he would have to stay in New York for a week or so. It was over fifty words long.”

(by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.

telegram

informal: message transmitted by telegraph


cycle

en-verb

cycle (third-person singular simple present cycles, present participle cycling, simple past and past participle cycled)

cycles (present singular third-person)
cycling (participle present)
cycled (participle past)
cycled (past)

From Middle English cicle (“fixed length period of years”), from Late Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”), from Proto-Hellenic *kúklos, *kʷókʷlos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“circle, wheel”).
Doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, chukker, cyclus, and wheel (see there for more).

doublet

Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.

(electronics) To turn power off and back on


synthesizer

→ Hebrew: סינתיסייזר (síntesaizer)

سِنْثِسَيْزَر

music: an electronic instrument module without a keyboard

(electronics) An electronic circuit that generates an electronic signal oscillation with accurate timing from a reference oscillator.

penyintesis

electronics: an electronic circuit that generates an electronic signal oscillation

(electronics) An electronic device that generates electronic signal patterns to test an electronic circuit.

penyintesis

electronics: an electronic device that generates electronic signal patterns


programmable read-only memory

en-noun

programmable read-only memory (usually uncountable, plural programmable read-only memories)

programmable read-only memories (plural)

write once, read many
write once, read many

(electronics) A type of read-only memory which can be written to once (write once, read many memory/WORM), and thereafter becomes fixed in value.


SW

SW (countable and uncountable, plural SWs)


ABC

(electronics, electric vehicles, automotive) Initialism of always be charging; a recommendation to remember to charge or be left without use by a low battery at an inopportune time.


on hold

I have been on hold for 45 minutes listening to a recording about how important my call is to them.


EPROM

(electronics) Initialism of erasable programmable read-only memory.


NSA

(mobile telephony) Initialism of non-standalone architecture.


order

order (countable and uncountable, plural orders)

→ Swahili: oda

From Middle English ordre, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ōrdinem, accusative of ōrdō (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”), from Proto-Italic *ordō (“to arrange”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂or-d-, from *h₂er-.
Related to Latin ōrdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”). In sense “request for purchase”, compare bespoke. Doublet of ordo.

cog

a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter

(electronics) A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.

řád

electronics: power of polynomial function in a circuit’s block


country code

A short alphabetic or numeric geographical code representing a specific country or area.


MF

en-noun

MF (countable and uncountable, plural MFs)

(electronics) Initialism of medium frequency.


GST

(electronics) One of various compounds of germanium, antimony, and tellurium used as a phase change material, including GeSbTe.


LCD

LCD monitors offer higher resolution and take up far less space than traditional PC displays.

2001 May 23, James Connell, “Apple to Drop CRT Monitors”, in International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:

liquid crystal display
liquid crystal display#English

(electronics, computing) Initialism of liquid crystal display.


MM

Coordinate term: MC

(audio, electronics) Initialism of moving magnet, a type of phono cartridge.


resistor

(electronics) An electric component that transmits current in direct proportion to the voltage across it.


electronic

(physics, chemistry) Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.

Operating on the physical behavior of electrons, especially in semiconductors.

In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.

2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:


PLC

PLC (countable and uncountable, plural PLCs)

Audio (US)

programmable logic controller
programmable logic controller#English

(countable, electronics) Initialism of programmable logic controller.

plc

public limited company, programmable logic controller


terminal

→ Bulgarian: термина́л (terminál)

→ Japanese: ターミナル (tāminaru)

→ Korean: 터미널 (teomineol)

desctree

→ Russian: термина́л (terminál)
→ Kazakh: терминал (terminal)

Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end”). See term, terminus.

термина́л

computing - the end of a line of signals

(electronics) the end of a line where signals are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals are made available to apparatus.


computer architecture

en-noun

computer architecture (countable and uncountable, plural computer architectures)

(computer hardware) The conceptual structure around which a given computer is designed.

(computer hardware) The science of computer design.


dash

From Middle English daschen, dassen, from Danish daske (“to slap, strike”), related to Swedish daska (“to smack, slap, spank”), of obscure origin. Compare German tatschen (“to grope, paw”), Old English dwǣsċan (“to quell, put out, destroy, extinguish”). See also dush.

noncog

(typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).

The dash clock said 2:38 when[…] I turned off a dirt road[…].

1955 October 19, Rex Stout, The Next Witness, Three Witnesses, 94 Bantam, →ISBN, page 31:

-i hope you find at least one thing on your dash that will make you laugh today.

2018, anonymous, quoted in Mélanie Bourdaa, "'May We Meet Again': Social Bonds, Activities, and Identities in the #Clexa Fandom", in A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (ed. Paul Booth), page 392

i cannot tell you how happy it makes me when i see my dash filled with selfies from other folks who look like me.

2018, "notthesameknowledge", quoted in Randall Lake, Recovering Argument, unnumbered page

“You wanna know what else is all over my dash? Gifs of you and your boyfriend."

2018, Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie, Alphas Like Us, unnumbered page:

(Internet, informal) The dashboard of a social media user.

Short for dashboard.
The dashboard of a social media user.


scalar

Borrowed from Latin scālāris, adjectival form from scāla (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder, scale”), for *scadla, from scandere (“to climb”); compare scale. The mathematics sense was coined by Irish mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton in 1846.

coin

(electronics) An amplifier whose output is a constant multiple of its input.


pot

en-verb

pot (third-person singular simple present pots, present participle potting, simple past and past participle potted)

pots (present singular third-person)
potting (participle present)
potted (participle past)
potted (past)

From Middle English pot, potte, from Old English pott (“pot”) and Old French pot (“pot”) (probably from Frankish *pott); both Old English and Frankish from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budnós (“a type of vessel”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pot (“pot”), Dutch pot (“pot”), German Low German Pott (“pot”), German Pott (“pot”), Swedish potta (“chamber pot”), Icelandic pottur (“tub, pot”), Old Armenian պոյտն (poytn, “pot, earthen pot”). Also, Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”).
The sense of ruin or deterioration was originally a general allusion to "being chopped up and tossed in a (normally fiery) pot, like a piece of meat" (i.e. to get wasted or done with (by someone)). The 'clean' slang term which was used in reference to toilet rooms and lavatories apparently derives from English chamberpots, although now usually encountered as potty in the context of children's toilet training.

cog

(electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.


pot

(slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.

slide pot

a sliding (linear) potentiometer typically designed to be manipulated by a thumb or finger

thumb pot

a rotating potentiometer designed to be turned by a thumb or finger


matrix

From Middle English matris, matrice, matrix, from Old French matrice (“pregnant animal”), or from Latin mātrīx (“dam, womb”), both ultimately from māter (“mother”). Doublet of mother from Indo-European ancestor.
Slang usage coined with the 1999 sci-fi action film The Matrix.

基質

analytical chemistry: sampling environment

Any type of core or diode matrix used to derive the decoding of these codes would amount to a rather large volume of terminals for just the 17,500 terminals alone.

1949, Proceedings of the Association of American Railroads:

The transistor matrix in the encoder supplies the sequential gates.

1959, John Millar Carroll, Modern Transistor Circuits:

A transistor-diode matrix is composed of vertical and horizontal wires with a transistor at each intersection.

1962, Burroughs Corporation, Digital Computer Principles:

Robot controllers range in complexity from simple stepping switches through pneumatic logic sequencers, diode matrix boards, electronic sequencers, and microprocessors to minicomputers.

1987, David Ardayfio, Fundamentals of Robotics:

Diode matrix is the most fundamental of all ROM structure.

2002, B. Somantathan Nair, Digital Electronics and Logic Design:

(electronics) A grid-like arrangement of electronic components, especially one intended for information coding, decoding or storage.


primary

/ˈpɹaɪˌmɛɹi/

Borrowed from Latin prīmārius (“of the first (rank); chief, principal; excellent”), from prīmus (first; whence the English adjective prime) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French primaire, primer, and premier. Doublet of premier.

bor

(electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.


translator

[ˌtʰɹænzˈleɪtʰɚ]

[ˌtʰɹænzˈleɪɾɚ]

Directly from Latin trānslātor and French translator, and also from Middle English translatour, from Old French translatour, translateur, etc., from Latin trānslātor, from trānslātus (“carried across”) + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from trānsferō (“carry across”), from trans (“across”) + ferō (“bear, carry”), q.v. Equivalent to translate + -or.

vertaler

someone or something that translates meaning from one language to another

(obsolete) Synonym of repeater, a thing that automatically retransmits an incoming message along a telegraph line.


grid

Back-formation or clipping of griddle or gridiron.

(electronics) The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).


reception

en-noun

reception (countable and uncountable, plural receptions)

/ɹɪˈsɛp.ʃn̩/

Borrowed from Middle French reception, from Latin recipiō(n) (“the act of receiving; reception”), from recipiō (“receive”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“I hold”).

der

We have poor TV reception in the valley.

The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.

(uncountable, electronics) The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.

прие́мане

electronics: act or ability to receive signals


flip-flop

→ Japanese: フリップフロップ (furippu-furoppu)

Onomatopoeic. Most probably an imitation of the sound produced when walking in them.

Ten two-state flip-flops […] were formed into ten-stage ring counters representing each decimal digit in the ten-digit accumulators […]

2012, George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral, Penguin, published 2013, page 72:

(computing, electronics) A bistable; an electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable and an unstable state (switching from one to the other and back again in response to a trigger), and which is thereby capable of serving as one bit of memory.


ADC

en-noun

ADC (countable and uncountable, plural ADCs)

analog-to-digital converter
analog-to-digital converter#English

(electronics) Initialism of analog-to-digital converter.


EEPROM

(electronics) Electrically erasable programmable read-only memory.


bar

bar (countable and uncountable, plural bars)

→ Albanian: bar m

→ Arabic: بَار m (bār)

→ Armenian: բար (bar)

→ Bulgarian: бар (bar)

→ Burmese: ဘား (bha:)

→ Chichewa: bála

→ Cantonese: 吧 (baa¹)

→ Czech: bar m

→ Danish: bar c

→ Dutch: bar m

→ Esperanto: baro

→ Estonian: baar

→ French: bar m
→ Romanian: bar

→ Galician: bar m

→ Georgian: ბარი (bari)

→ German: Bar f

→ Greek: μπαρ n (bar)

→ Gulf Arabic: بار (bār)

→ Hebrew: בָּר (bar), בָּאר (bár)

→ Hungarian: bár (also via German)

→ Icelandic: bar m

→ Irish: beár m

→ Italian: bar m

→ Japanese: バー (bā)

→ Khmer: បារ (baa)

→ Korean: 바 (ba)

→ Lithuanian: bãras m

→ Macedonian: бар m (bar)

→ Malagasy: ba

→ Mandarin: 吧 (bā)

→ Norwegian:

Bokmål: bar m

Nynorsk: bar m

→ Persian: بار (bâr)

→ Polish: bar m

→ Portuguese: bar m

→ Russian: бар m (bar)

→ Serbo-Croatian: ба̑р m, bȃr m

→ Slovene: bȃr m

→ Spanish: bar m

→ Swahili: baa

→ Swedish: bar c (see there for further descendants)

→ Thai: บาร์ (baa)

→ Turkish: bar

→ Xhosa: íbhári

→ Zulu: ibha

From Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Doublet of barre.

der

I don't have any bars in the middle of this desert.

(telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.

linie

technology: a part of a pictogram indicating signal strength or charge level


net

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *neHd-der.
Proto-Germanic *natją
Proto-West Germanic *nati
Old English nett
Middle English net
English net
From Middle English net, from Old English net, nett, from Proto-West Germanic *nati, from Proto-Germanic *natją, from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”).
Cognate with West Frisian net, Low German Nett, Dutch net, German Netz, Danish net, Swedish nät.

der

A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them.

(electronics) A conductor that interconnects two or more component terminals.


spim

en-noun

spim (usually uncountable, plural spims)

(telephony) Unsolicited messages sent to cellular phones.


carrier

но́сьбіт

person or object that carries someone or something else

(physics, electronics) A charge carrier.


envelope

PIE word
 *h₁én
From French enveloppe. The engineering sense is derived from flight envelope. The verb is from the noun.

(electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.

mähisjoon

electronics: curve that bounds a set of curves


wafer

From Middle English wafre, from Anglo-Norman wafre, waufre (Old French gaufre), from a Germanic source. Compare Middle Low German wāfel, Middle Dutch wafel (“honeycomb”), West Flemish wafer. See also waffle.

(electronics) A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.


via

Borrowed from Latin via (“road”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Doublet of way.
The sense in electronics is also explained as vertical interconnect access.

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-via.wav

Audio (US)

(electronics) A small hole in a printed circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layers.


land

land (countable and uncountable, plural lands)

From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).
Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), German Land (“land, country, state”), Norwegian and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”), Icelandic land (“land”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic лѧдо (lędo), from Proto-Slavic *lęda (“heath, wasteland”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).

cog

(electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.

johdinkuvio

electronics: conducting area on a board or chip


buck

en-verb

buck (third-person singular simple present bucks, present participle bucking, simple past and past participle bucked)

bucks (present singular third-person)
bucking (participle present)
bucked (participle past)
bucked (past)

From dialectal buck ("to give in, yield"; also bug (“to bend”)), from Middle Low German bucken (“to bend”) or Middle Dutch bucken, bocken (“to bend”), intensive forms of Old Saxon būgan and Old Dutch *būgan (“to bend, bow”), both from Proto-West Germanic *beugan, from Proto-Germanic *būganą (“to bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūgʰ- (“to bend”). Influenced in some senses by buck “male goat” (see above). Sense “to meet, to encounter” is a semantic loan from Jamaican Creole buck.
Compare bow and elbow.

gl

"to give in, yield"; also <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">bug</i> (“to bend”)

(electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.


mode

From Old French mode (masculine), from Latin modus (“measure, due measure, rhythm, melody”). Doublet of modus.

tila

mathematics, physics: state of a system represented by an eigenfunction of that system

airplane mode; night mode

The car was then placed into its Level 2 driving mode, much like you would for the current adaptive cruise control systems.

2024 May 4, Mat Gallagher, “I tried Mercedes’ new autonomous driving in busy city streets – it's mind-blowing”, in T3:

(electronics) A series of settings on a device used for a specific purpose.


ATM

en-noun

ATM (countable and uncountable, plural ATMs)

asynchronous transfer mode
asynchronous transfer mode#English

(telecommunications, electronics) Initialism of asynchronous transfer mode.

ATM

(telecommunication, electronics) Asynchronous Transfer Mode


battery

battery (countable and uncountable, plural batteries)

Korean: 배터리 (baeteori)

Borrowed from Middle French batterie, from Old French baterie (“action of beating”), from batre (“battre”), from Latin battuō (“beat”), from Gaulish. Doublet of batterie.

der

1749 Benjamin Franklin, letter to Peter Collinson
Upon this We made what we call’d an Electrical Battery, consisting of eleven Panes of large Sash Glass, arm’d with thin leaden Plates, pasted on each Side...
A Turky is to be killed for our Dinners by the Electrical Shock; and roasted by the electrical Jack, before a Fire kindled by the Electrified Bottle; when the Healths of all the Famous Electricians in England, France and Germany, are to be drank in Electrified Bumpers, under the Discharge of Guns from the Electrical Battery.

[For his experiments with electricity,] Benjamin Franklin utilized Leyden jars and referred to several jars hooked together as a battery (after a "battery" of cannon).

2012, John Karsnitz et al., Engineering Design: An Introduction, page 364:

[The voltage of a single cell is] too low for most applications [... so] a series of cells will be used to obtain the desired voltage – a "battery" of cells, in the strictest sense of the term.

2012, Christian Glaize, Sylvie Genies, Lead and Nickel Electrochemical Batteries, page 6:

(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.

rafgeymir

rechargeable, usually large, such as in vehicles


source

From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgō (“to rise”), which is composed of sub- (“up from below”) + regō (“lead, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-. See surge.

der

(electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).


active

en-adj

active (comparative more active, superlative most active)

more active (comparative)
most active (superlative)

Albanian: aktiv

From Middle English actyf, from Old French actif, from Latin activus, from agere (“to do, to act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti.
Morphologically act + -ive.


active

Components are split into two broad segments: actives and passives. Active components like the vacuum tube and the transistor contain the power to generate and alter electrical signals.

2013, David Manners, Hitchhikers' Guide to Electronics in the '90s, page 36:

(electronics) Any component that is not passive. See Passivity (engineering).


telephone

en-noun

telephone (countable and uncountable, plural telephones)

First used by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 to refer to the modern instrument, but previous devices had been given this name, which was borrowed from French téléphone. Ultimately from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”).

ателефон

a device used for two-way talking with other people

talk to Ralph on the big white telephone

(countable, telephony) A telecommunication device (originally mechanical, and now electronic) used for two-way talking with another person (now often shortened to phone).


pulse

From Late Middle English pulse, Middle English pous, pouse (“regular beat of arteries, pulse; heartbeat; place on the body where a pulse is detectable; beat (of a musical instrument); energy, vitality”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman puls, pous, pus, and Middle French pouls, poulz, pous [and other forms], Old French pous, pulz (“regular beat of arteries; place on the body where a pulse is detectable”) (modern French pouls), and from their etymon Latin pulsus (“beat, impulse, pulse, stroke; regular beat of arteries or the heart”), from pellō (“to drive, impel, propel, push; to banish, eject, expel; to set in motion; to strike”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to beat, strike; to drive; to push, thrust”)) + -sus (a variant of -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs)).

nb...

pouce, pounce, pouns, pounse, pousse, pouz, puls

der

(also electronics) A brief increase in the strength of an electrical signal; an impulse.


pulse

en-verb

pulse (third-person singular simple present pulses, present participle pulsing, simple past and past participle pulsed)

pulses (present singular third-person)
pulsing (participle present)
pulsed (participle past)
pulsed (past)

From Late Middle English pulse, Middle English pulsen (“to pulse, throb”), from Latin pulsāre, the present active infinitive of pulsō (“to push; to beat, batter, hammer, strike; to knock on; to pulsate; (figuratively) to drive or urge on, impel; to move; to agitate, disquiet, disturb”), the frequentative of pellō (“to drive, impel, propel, push; to banish, eject, expel; to set in motion; to strike”); see further at etymology 1. Doublet of push.

inh

To apply an electric current or signal that varies in strength to (something).

прилагам импулс

to apply an electric current or signal that varies in strength to (something)

electromagnetic wave
electromagnetic wave

To manipulate (an electric current, electromagnetic wave, etc.) so that it is emitted in pulses.


cellular phone

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-cellular phone.wav

A mobile phone using cellular technology.

(informal) A mobile phone using any technology (such as PCS).


chip

→ Catalan: xip

→ Greek: τσιπ (tsip)

→ Italian: chip

→ Korean: 칩 (chip)

desc

→ Hebrew: צִ׳יפְּס, צִ׳יפּ

→ Hebrew: צִ׳יפְּס, צִ׳יפּ (chips, chip)

→ Hungarian: csip, csipsz

→ Turkish: cips, çip

→ Yiddish: טשיפּל (tshipl)

→ Welsh: tsip

Noun from Middle English chip, chippe, from Old English ċipp (“chip; small piece of wood, shaving”), from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) –, from Proto-West Germanic *kippōn (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Germanic *kippōną (“to chip, chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyb- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). Related to Dutch kip, keep (“notch; nick; score”), Dutch kippen (“to hatch”), German Low German kippen (“to cut; clip; trim; shorten”), German kipfen (“to chop off the tip; snip”), Old Swedish kippa (“to chop”). Compare also chop.
The formally similar Old English ċipp, ċypp, ċyp (“a beam; log; stock; post”), from Proto-Germanic *kippaz (“log; beam”) (whence Old Saxon kip (“post”), Old High German kipfa, chipfa (“axle, stave”), Old Norse keppr (“cudgel, club”)) is a different, unrelated word either borrowed from Latin cippus (“stake; pale; post”) or borrowed from the same source language as the Latin.
Verb from Middle English chippen, from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) – see above.

cog

1986 September 1, Tom Moran, Lisa L. Spiegelman, New Chip Said to Contain Seven PC AT Chip Functions, InfoWorld, page 5,
But sources close to the company said the chip contains two direct memory access controllers, two interrupt controllers, a timer, a memory mapper from Texas Instruments, and a Motorola Inc. real-time clock.

(electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate; a microchip.

πλακίδιο ολοκληρωμένου κυκλώματος

2002, Koji Ikuta, Atsushi Takahashi, Kota Ikeda, Shoji Maruo, User-Assembly Fully Integrated Micro Chemical Laboratory Using Biochemical IC Chips for Wearable/Implantable Applications, Yoshinobu Baba, Shuichi Shoji, Albert van den Berg (editors), Micro Total Analysis Systems 2002: Proceedings of the μTAS 2002 Symposium, Volume 1, page 38,
Fig. 4(a) shows a schematic design of the micropump chip.

Fig. 0.3 is an image of the front and back views of a drug delivery microchip made of silicon and painted with gold, with a U.S. dime (10 cents). The chip in the picture consists of 34 nano-sized wells each of which is capable of housing 24 nl (nano liters) of drug. It is possible to make at least 400 wells or even 1000 or more in these chips which are very inexpensive, costing less tham $20 [22, 23].

2007, Elisabeth S. Papazoglou, Aravind Parthasarathy, Bionanotechnology, page 6:

(electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical or biochemical devices.


UART

w:universal asynchronous receiver transmitter

(electronics) Initialism of universal asynchronous receiver transmitter.


MOSFET

(electronics) Acronym of metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor.


IGBT

insulated-gate bipolar transistor
w:insulated-gate bipolar transistor

(electronics) Initialism of insulated-gate bipolar transistor.


MOV

(electronics) Initialism of metal-oxide varistor.


PWM

(electronics) Initialism of pulsewidth modulation.


DSP

digital signal processor
w:digital signal processor

(electronics, countable) Initialism of digital signal processor.

digital signal processing
digital signal processing#English

(electronics, uncountable) Initialism of digital signal processing.


NTC

(electronics) Initialism of Negative Temperature Coefficient.


VCO

voltage controlled oscillator
w:voltage controlled oscillator

(electronics) Initialism of voltage controlled oscillator.


DUT

(electronics) Initialism of device under test.


IO

en-noun

IO (countable and uncountable, plural IOs)

Alternative form: I/O

(computing, electronics) Initialism of input and output.


CCD

CCD (countable and uncountable, plural CCDs)

Charge-coupled device
Colony Collapse Disorder

charge-coupled device
charge-coupled device#English

(electronics) Initialism of charge-coupled device. (digital camera cell technology)


CRT

CRT (countable and uncountable, plural CRTs)

A few seconds later, the Angry Man picks up the keyboard and swings it like a baseball bat at his screen—it’s an old PC from the '90s, with a big CRT monitor—whacking it off the desk.

2018 January 12, Joe Veix, “The Strange History of One of the Internet's First Viral Videos”, in Wired, →ISSN:

cathode ray tube
cathode ray tube#English

(electronics, computing) Initialism of cathode ray tube.

(electronics, computing, becoming dated) A display device using a cathode ray tube, such as early televisions or monitors.


DAC

DAC (countable and uncountable, plural DACs)

(countable, electronics) Acronym of digital-to-analog converter.


PLL

PLL (countable and uncountable, plural PLLs)

phase-locked loop
phase-locked loop#English

(electronics) Initialism of phase-locked loop.


SCR

SCR (countable and uncountable, plural SCRs)

(electronics) Initialism of silicon controlled rectifier.


PCB

PCB (countable and uncountable, plural PCBs)

LED flexible PCB strip

printed circuit board
printed circuit board#English

(electronics) Initialism of printed circuit board.

(electronics) Initialism of physically changeable bit.


CMOS

(electronics) Abbreviation of complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor.

Комплементарный полевой транзистор

МОП-транзистор


FET

(electronics) Initialism of field effect transistor.


PAL

PAL (countable and uncountable, plural PALs)

programmable array logic
w:programmable array logic

(electronics, countable) Acronym of programmable array logic.


USB

Universal Serial Bus
Universal Serial Bus#English

(computing, trademark) Initialism of Universal Serial Bus; a serial bus standard for connecting devices.


USB

(computer hardware, trademark, informal) A USB flash drive.

(communication, space science) Initialism of unified S-band (a communication system used for the Apollo program).


RF

RF (countable and uncountable, plural RFs)

(electronics, physics) Initialism of radio frequency.


Based on the telephone number used in North America to obtain telephone numbers of listed subscribers.

(Canada, US, telephony) The telephonic information service.


CPU

central processing unit
central processing unit#English

(computer hardware) Initialism of central processing unit.


IC

IC (countable and uncountable, plural ICs)

integrated circuit
integrated circuit#English

(electronics) Initialism of integrated circuit.


UPS

UPS (countable and uncountable, plural UPSes)

uninterruptible power supply/source
uninterruptible power supply#English

(electronics) Initialism of uninterruptible power supply/source

SAI

(initialism) uninterruptible power supply


UPS

en-verb

UPS (third-person singular simple present UPSes, present participle UPSing, simple past and past participle UPSed)

UPSes (present singular third-person)
UPSing (participle present)
UPSed (participle past)
UPSed (past)

If you don't want to lose all your data when the power goes out, you should UPS your computer.

(electronics, nonstandard) To connect a device to an uninterruptible power supply


trace

From Middle English trace, traas, from Old French trace (“an outline, track, trace”), from the verb (see below).

der

printed circuit board
printed circuit board

(electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.

لِوْحَة دَارَاتُ مَطَبُوعَة

(electronics) electric current-carrying conductive pathway


rubber

en-verb

rubber (third-person singular simple present rubbers, present participle rubbering, simple past and past participle rubbered)

rubbers (present singular third-person)
rubbering (participle present)
rubbered (participle past)
rubbered (past)

"There's a lot of nostalgia about the phone and how it was the way to get the local news," said Jane Beck of the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. One way was "rubbering," or listening in on a neighbor's conversations ...

1999, Los Angeles Times, "Party's Over for Rural Phone Customers in Green Mountain State," (Jan. 31, 1999)

(telephony) To eavesdrop on a telephone call


drain

→ French: drain

→ Irish: draein

→ Welsh: draen

From Middle English dreinen, from Old English drēahnian (“to drain, strain, filter”), from Proto-Germanic *drauhnōną (“to strain, sieve”), from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (“dry, parched”). Akin to Old English drūgian (“to dry up”), Old English drūgaþ (“dryness, drought”), Old English drȳġe (“dry”). More at dry.

der

(electronics) One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

drain

(electronics) name of one terminal of a transistor


MBD

en-noun

MBD (countable and uncountable, plural MBDs)

(computing, electronics) Initialism of motherboard.


capacitor

From capacity + -or.
Capacitor replaced the term condenser (coined by Alessandro Volta in 1782) to disambiguate it from steam condenser. The coiner is unknown but the change was recommended in 1926 by British Standard Glossary of Terms in Electrical Engineering.

(electronics) An electronic component capable of storing electrical energy in an electric field; especially one consisting of two conductors separated by a dielectric.


printer

→ Azerbaijani: printer

→ Georgian: პრინტერი (ṗrinṭeri)

→ Japanese: プリンター (purintā)

→ Korean: 프린터 (peurinteo)

→ Russian: при́нтер (prínter)

→ Serbo-Croatian: prìnter, прѝнтер

The use of the Hughes type printer is extending on the main circuits, where speed of transmission is a great object; but it is highly improbable that it will ever be adopted, except on main circuits.

1872 February 24, “Telegraph Instruments”, in The Mechanics’ Magazine and Journal of Science, Arts, and Manufactures, volume XCVI, London: Mechanics' Magazine Offices, 166, Fleet Street, and 85, Gracechurch Street, E.C., →OCLC, page 172, column 1:

By the use of these keys in conjunction with the other keys, the operator has perfect control over the receiving printer at the distant station.

1903, “The Rowland Multiplex Printing Telegraph System”, in Telegraph Age. A Semi-monthly Journal Devoted to Telegraphy, volume XX, New York, N.Y.: J[ohn] B. Taltavall, →OCLC, page 461, column 1:

For long distance messages, reports, etc., the use of the printer telegraph renders a highly satisfactory and efficient service, especially where the line circuits are derived through a composite or phantom circuit without the exclusive use of wires for this circuit. The Union Pacific recently installed a two-channel multiplex automatic printer on a simplexed circuit, thereby eliminating the necessity for at least one additional overland wire, and also speeding up the service and reducing the cost for each message.

1924, Railway Signaling and Communications, volume 17, number 1, Bristol, Conn.: Simmons-Boardman Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36, column 1:

In a telegraph system, a multiplex transmission circuit in which the signals transmitted comprise equal-impulse code combinations, a receiving distributor for separating the successive combinations into separate channels, a simplex printer for each channel, and local means including said distributor for generating start and rest impulses for each printer.

1928 August 18, Robert F. Dirkes, Vernon R. Kimball, James W. Long, Operating Simplex Printers in a Multiplex System, US Patent US1802240A, claim 3, page 5, column 1:

Top-quality prints in minutes, at savings up to 80%, are said to be possible with the Satellite printer. Printer is sold by Eugene Dietzgen Co, Chicago, Ill.

1959 September, “Compact Printer”, in Air Conditioning, Heating and Ventilating, volume 56, New York, N.Y.: Industrial Press, →OCLC, page 103:

Much like a regular printer can print out a picture or text file, these machines can turn a digital 3-D model into a real, tangible object, and they are becoming more and more widespread. All over the world, makerspaces (places where people can gather, share ideas, learn, and use tools like 3-D printers to let their dreams become reality) are opening the doors.

2015, Nicki Peter Petrikowski, “Introduction”, in Getting the Most out of Makerspaces to Create with 3-D Printers (Makerspaces series), New York, N.Y.: Rosen Publishing, →ISBN, page 5:

(computer hardware) A device, usually attached to a computer, used to print text or images onto paper; an analogous device capable of producing three-dimensional objects.

rekenaardrukker

computing: device used to print text or images


exchange

exchange (countable and uncountable, plural exchanges)

From Middle English eschaunge, borrowed from Anglo-Norman eschaunge, from Old French eschange (whence modern French échange), from the verb eschanger, from Vulgar Latin *excambiāre, present active infinitive of *excambiō (from Latin ex with Late Latin cambiō). Spelling later changed on the basis of ex- in English. By surface analysis, ex- + change.

The 555 exchange is reserved for use by the phone company, which is why it's often used in films.

NPA-NXX-1234 is standard format, where NPA is the area code and NXX is the exchange.

(telephony, US) The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before the introduction of area codes).


passive

en-adj

passive (comparative more passive, superlative most passive)

more passive (comparative)
most passive (superlative)

From Middle English passyf, passyve, from Middle French, French passif, from Latin passivus (“serving to express the suffering of an action; in late Latin literally capable of suffering or feeling”), from passus, past participle of pati (“to suffer”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”); compare patient.

der

(electronics) Of a component: that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.


passive

Reductions In Both Size And Weight Offered By Integrated Passives
You may not know it yet, but if you're like most consumers, you want integrated passives.

2001, The Virginia Engineer, volume 50, page 20:

The components include active devices such as logic, memory, processors, etc.; passives such as capacitors, resistors, crystal oscillators, inductances, etc.; […]

2010, Sridhar Canumalla, Puligandla Viswanadham, Portable Consumer Electronics: Packaging, Materials, and Reliability:

(electronics) Any component that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.


inductor

Borrowed from Medieval Latin inductor, from Latin induco.

(electronics) A passive device that introduces inductance into an electrical circuit.

cívka

passive electrical device — see also coil


nor

From Etymology 1 (sense 2 above), reinterpreted as not + or or negation + or.

(logic, electronics) Alternative form of NOR


junction

→ Bengali: জংশন (joṅśon)

→ Japanese: ジャンクション

/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/

From Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join + -tion.

(electronics) electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.


triad

PIE word
 *tréyes
From Latin triad-, stem of trias (“three, triad”), from Ancient Greek τριάς (triás).
Sense 3 (“branch of a Chinese underground criminal society”) is due to the word being applied by the British authorities to underground society in Hong Kong based on the geometry of the Chinese character, derived from a name used by some of those societies, 三合會／三合会 (sānhéhuì, “Three Harmonies Society”), referring to the union between heaven, earth, and humanity.

(electronics) On a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue.


complement

en-noun

complement (countable and uncountable, plural complements)

From Middle English complement, from Latin complēmentum (“that which fills up or completes”), from compleō (“I fill up, I complete”) (English complete). Doublet of compliment. The verb is from the noun.

der

(electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.


microcontroller

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-microcontroller.wav

(computing, electronics) A microcomputer on a single chip, used to control some device such as an automobile engine or a toy.


stage

→ Japanese: ステージ (sutēji)

From Middle English stage, from Old French estage (“dwelling, residence; position, situation, condition”), from Old French ester (“to be standing, be located”). Cognate with Old English stæþþan (“to make staid, stay”), Old Norse steðja (“to place, provide, confirm, allow”), Old English stæde, stede (“state, status, standing, place, station, site”). More at stead. Doublet of étage.

cog

a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter

(electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.


stub

From Middle English stubbe (“tree stump”), from Old English stybb, stubb (“tree stump”), from Proto-West Germanic *stubb, from Proto-Germanic *stubbaz (compare Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbr, Faroese stubbi (“stub”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-; compare steep (“sharp slope”). Doublet of stob.
Sense extended in Middle English to similarly shaped objects. Verb sense “strike one’s toe” is recorded 1848; “extinguish a cigarette” 1927.

(electronics, radio frequency circuits) A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only.


digital camera

The good thing about digital cameras and digital backs is that they allow you to change ISO in the middle of shooting. You can't do that with film.

2006, Michael Grecco, Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait, Amphoto Books, →ISBN, page 20:

An electronic, often battery-powered device for recording and storing photographs in digital format, especially on a flash card.


bias

en-noun

bias (countable and uncountable, plural biases or biasses)

c. 1520 in the sense "oblique line". As a technical term in the game of bowls c. 1560, whence the figurative use (c. 1570).
From Middle French biais, adverbially ("sideways, askance, against the grain") c. 1250, as a noun ("oblique angle, slant") from the late 16th century.
The French word is likely from Old Occitan biais, itself of obscure origin, most likely from Vulgar Latin *biaxius (“with two axes”).

(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.

předpětí

electronics: voltage or current applied to electronic device


bias

en-verb

bias (third-person singular simple present biases or biasses, present participle biasing or biassing, simple past and past participle biased or biassed)

biases (present singular third-person)
biasses (present singular third-person)
biasing (participle present)
biassing (participle present)
biased (participle past)
biased (past)
biassed (participle past)
biassed (past)

2002, H. Dijkstra, J. Libby, Overview of silicon detectors, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 494, 86–93, p. 87.
On the ohmic side n⁺ is implanted to provide the ohmic contact to bias the detector.


facsimile

en-noun

facsimile (countable and uncountable, plural facsimiles or facsimilia)

→ Japanese: ファクシミリ

From Latin fac simile (“make like”), from fac (“make”) (imperative of facere (“make”)) + simile (neuter of similis (“like, similar”)).

To paraphrase the critic of the Times, if one may make the facsimile of a human being out of bronze, why not the facsimile of a Brillo carton out of plywood?

1964, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld”, in James Matheson Thompson, editor, Twentieth Century Theories of Art, published 1990, § VIII, 540:

A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network.


facsimile

en-verb

facsimile (third-person singular simple present facsimiles, present participle facsimileing or facsimiling, simple past and past participle facsimiled or facsimilied)

facsimiles (present singular third-person)
facsimileing (participle present)
facsimiling (participle present)
facsimiled (participle past)
facsimiled (past)
facsimilied (participle past)
facsimilied (past)

(transitive) To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.


cap

parasitic caps

I had to replace the caps in that thing to get it to work again.


analog-to-digital converter

en-noun

analog-to-digital converter (plural analog-to-digital converters)

Coordinate term: digital-to-analog converter

(electronics) A device that converts an infinite resolution analog signal to a finite resolution digital signal.

ciferecigilo

device that converts analog signal to digital signal


default

default (countable and uncountable, plural defaults)

→ Russian: дефо́лт (defólt)

From Middle English defaut, defaute, from Old French defaute (“fault, defect, failure, culpability, lack”), ultimately from Latin de- (“away”) + fallo (“deceive, cheat, escape notice of”).

der

(electronics, computing) the original software programming settings as set by the factory

լռելյայն

electronics, computing: original settings


EPIC

(electronics) Acronym of epitaxial integrated circuit.


phone number

telephone number
telephone number#English

(informal) Clipping of telephone number.


pothead

From pot (“marijuana”) + -head. First sense appears c. 1957 in the writings of Jack Gelber. Third sense appears c. 1639.

(chiefly Canada) An electric motor's terminal connection or wiring box.


RFID

The lockers were the standard metal cubes with electronic locks keyed to the RFID in our ID cards.

2020, Ben Aaronovitch, False Value, Gollancz, pages 11–12:

radio-frequency identification
radio-frequency identification#English

(electronics) Initialism of radio-frequency identification.


telephone number

en-noun

telephone number (plural telephone numbers)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-telephone number.wav

The sequence of digits used to identify a particular destination telephone in a network.


position

From Middle English posicioun, from Old French posicion, from Latin positio (“a putting, position”), from ponere, past participle positus (“to put, place”); see ponent. Compare apposition, composition, deposition; see pose.

positio

finance: amount of financial instruments held by someone

emergency position indicating radio beacon

emergency position indicating radio-beacon

emergency position indicating radiobeacon


fax

en-verb

fax (third-person singular simple present faxes or (rare) faxxes, present participle faxing or (rare) faxxing, simple past and past participle faxed or (rare) faxxed)

faxes (present singular third-person)
faxxes (present rare singular third-person)
faxing (participle present)
faxxing (participle present rare)
faxed (participle past)
faxed (past)
faxxed (participle past rare)
faxxed (past rare)

Clipping of facsimile, first attested 1979.

Hands trembling with excitement and impatience, I faxxed my credit history to Jerry Raskin, the real estate agent listed, and received an appointment to view the place.

1990, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, volume 14, page 82:

Plaintiff contented that in a game show in London, England, in January of 1988, Mr. Steinberg entered into an oral agreement with Atari representatives to become the exclusive distributor of Atari Games’ products; that the proposed agreement was dictated at this meeting; and that within two days Mr. Steinberg sent defendant a faxxed confirmation of this oral arrangement reached at the London trade show.

1991, Jury Verdicts Weekly, volume 35, page 10:

SENATOR BAUCUS, IT IS THE THIRD STATEMENT, YOUR CHALLENGE, THAT HAS LED TO THE MOST FRUSTRATION FOR THE PEOPLE I AM REPRESENTING TODAY. WE TOOK YOU AT YOUR WORD AND HAVE RALLIED AND CONVOYED TO MAKE YOU AWARE OF US, TELEPHONED, WRITTEN LETTERS, FAXXED YOU, AND SPOKE WITH YOU PERSONALLY TO LET YOU KNOW HOW WE FEEL.

1992, Montana National Forest Management Act of 1991: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks and Forests of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session on S. 1696; October 22, 1991, Washington: United States Government Publishing Office, →ISBN, pages 140–141:

A few of the corporations involved have frankly acknowledged the roadblock: their own fear of the POW/MIA movement. Some companies scheduled for a trade mission to Vietnam dropped out after receiving a faxxed message from the National P.O.W. Strike Force summed up by its leader: “We will go out of our way to destroy your company because you want to do business with filthy Communists who are holding American prisoners.”

1993, H. Bruce Franklin, M.I.A., or, Mythmaking in America, revised and expanded paperback edition, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 194:

Thanks to Franz Amador and Tony Barrett for helpful discussions. We gratefully acknowledge Oren Etzioni’s emergency faxxing service. This research was funded in part by National Science Foundation Grant IRI-8957302, Office of Naval Research Grant 90-J-1904, and a grant from the Xerox corporation.

1993, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN, page 737, column 1:

His logistic: to dress in the skin of the worker, / the technician, the programmer, / infiltrating himself in their milieu, / their offices, their plants, & their boards, / a bug in their systems, / crossing up the controls and the panels, / the wiring, the wave lengths, / the faxxing of messages, the spy-satellites / & their receptors, / changing their conceptions, their charts.

1994, Olga Elena Mattei, “Part One: Poetry [§] The Angel of the Millennium (Accident at the Nuclear Plant)”, in Roberta Fernández, editor, In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States, Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press, →ISBN, page 139:

He already has the copy of the other fingerprints that Leo faxxed to him for comparison.

1995, Lucha Corpi, Cactus Blood: A Mystery Novel, Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press, →ISBN, page 151:

On May 12, 1995, Julie Hirshen (GAO) faxxed a draft portion of the GAO Cooperative Threat Reduction report dealing with MPCA.

1995 May 17, Ken Luongo, “Comments on GAO Report on CTR Program Concerning MPCA (note to Ken Sanders)”, in Weapons of Mass Destruction: Reducing the Threat From the Former Soviet Union: An Update (United States General Accounting Office, Report to Congressional Requesters), published June 1995, “Background”, page 76:

[162] / Faxxing from Israel / 03-695-0132 / [163] / Calling from abroad / 972-3-695-6868 / Faxxing from abroad / 972-3-695-0132

1996, Middle East Peace Process: Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session; September 20, 1995, Washington: United States Government Publishing Office, →ISBN, page 25:

Please advise how one faxxes from the Pilot Pro. Faxxing would greatly enhance my use of the Pilot. / Thanks!

1997 May 18, Mike Story, “Confirmed....Pilot Modem Has FAX capability!!”, in alt.comp.sys.palmtops.pilot (Usenet):

Please have Georgia Dixon of Sen Craig’s office have a current copy of the Canadian Endangered Species list faxxed to her from Ottawa, Canada.

1999, Appendix E: Response to Public Comments: Final Environmental Impact Statement For Open Road and Open Motorized Trail Analysis (Motorized Road and Trail Travel Plan):


data

→ Turkish: data

Borrowed from Latin data, nominative plural of datum (“that is given”), neuter past participle of dō (“I give”). Doublet of date.

run out of data

(mobile telephony) Ellipsis of mobile data: digital information transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi.


dope

dope (third-person singular simple present dopes, present participle doping, simple past and past participle doped)

dopes (present singular third-person)
doping (participle present)
doped (participle past)
doped (past)

→ Catalan: dopar

→ French: doper

→ Galician: dopar

→ German: dopen

→ Italian: dopare

→ Portuguese: dopar

→ Spanish: dopar

From Dutch doop (“thick dipping sauce”), from Dutch dopen (“to dip”), from Middle Dutch dopen, from Old Dutch *dōpen, from Frankish *daupijan, from Proto-Germanic *daupijaną.
“Doop” in the sense “narcotic drug” ultimately refers to viscous opium juice, the drug of choice of the ancient Greeks; “insider information” perhaps from knowing which horse had been doped in a race. Sense of "stupid person" perhaps following from the drug sense (i.e. relating to those intoxicated on opium), compare dope up. Related to English dip and German taufen.

Another way to dope semiconductors is to use materials like boron, in which each atom has one fewer valence electron than does a sillicon atom.

2011, Cathleen Shamieh, Gordon McComb, Electronics For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 113:

(transitive, electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).


press

press (third-person singular simple present presses, present participle pressing, simple past and past participle pressed or prest)

presses (present singular third-person)
pressing (participle present)
pressed (participle past)
pressed (past)
prest (participle past)
prest (past)

From Middle English pressen (“to crowd, thring, press”), from Old French presser (“to press”) (Modern French presser) from Latin pressāre, from pressus, past participle of premere "to press". Displaced native Middle English thringen (“to press, crowd, throng”) (from Old English þringan (“to press, crowd”)), Middle English thrasten (“to press, force, urge”) (from Old English þrǣstan (“to press, force”)), Old English þryscan (“to press”), Old English þȳwan (“to press, impress”).

cog

(transitive, mechanics, electronics) To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.


gate

From Middle English gate, gat, ȝate, ȝeat, from Old English ġeat (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”).
See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.

(electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).


pad

1554, "bundle of straw to lie on", probably from Low German or West Flemish pad (“sole of the foot”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to pass”), which would make it related to both path and find.

unk

probably

It is a general practice to pad down a condenser mike with as much as a 20-30 dB pad.

1967, Db: The Sound Engineering Magazine - Volumes 1-2:

(electronics) The amount by which a signal has been reduced.


thermistor

(electronics) A resistor whose resistance varies rapidly and predictably with temperature and as a result can be used to measure temperature.


dock

From early modern English "area of mud in which a ship can rest at low tide, dock", borrowed from Dutch dok (“dock”) or Middle Low German docke (“dock, ship's dock”), both from Middle Dutch docke (“port, harbour, roadstead”), of uncertain origin. The original sense may have been "the furrow a grounded vessel makes in a mud bank". Compare modern Dutch dok, modern German Low German Dock, West Frisian dok, German Dock, Danish dok, Swedish docka.
Some sources link this word to an unattested Middle Dutch *docke (“watercourse, trench, canal”), which is a ghost word, only being inferred from Mediaeval Latin documents in the form of ducta, doctus, doccia (“conduit, canal”). However, if this theory is correct, then it would relate the word to Italian doccia (“drainpipe”), making dock a doublet of douche and duct.
An alternative theory ties Middle Dutch docke to a North Germanic/Scandinavian source, notably Old Norse dǫkk (“depression in the landscape, pit, pool, trench”), related to Norwegian dokk (“hollow, low ground”), Old Icelandic dökk, dökð (“pit, pool”), Swedish dank (“marshy ground”). If so, this would make dock a doublet of dank.

der

(electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop computer (in this case, referred to as a docking station), or a mobile telephone, for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.


diskette

→ Portuguese: disquete

From disk + -ette, by analogy with cassette.

(computer hardware, dated) An 8-inch floppy disk.


floppy disk

→ Italian: floppy disk

→ Japanese: フロッピーディスク (furoppī disuku)

→ Welsh: disg hyblyg (calque)

A hacker starts with nothing but a dream and a floppy disk and presently finds himself in a business that's doubled and trebled.

1984, Venture (volume 6, part 1, page 142)

The floppy disk itself is a magnetically coated flexible plastic disk which is mounted in a protective envelope and can be used as a mass data storage medium.

1994, Alexander John Anderson, Foundations of Computer Technology, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 107:

(computer hardware) A removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB.

قُرْص مَرِن

flexible disk used for storing digital data


e-

(electronics) Used to prefix items that are embedded into devices, instead of being discrete or removable elements.


frame

→ Korean: 프레임 (peureim)

→ Swahili: fremu

From Middle English frame (“profit, benefit, advantage; a structure composed according to a plan”), from the verb (above) and also from Old Norse frami (“advantage, fame, bravery, efficiency, privilege, honor”); and frame (“a framework or structure of any kind”) which is of uncertain origin. The latter is usually regarded as a derivative of former; however, compare the rare Anglo-Norman and Old French frame, fraine (“frame, framework”), itself of uncertain origin, which might be a borrowing from the English, from the Norse, or even possibly ultimately from Frankish *hramu (“frame”) related to Dutch raam (“window frame”).

der

(electronics, film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30 or 1/60 of a second.


spur

(electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.


TIM

en-noun

TIM (countable and uncountable, plural TIMs)

Abbreviation.
* (trans-identified male): when applied to trans women by transphobes, perhaps influenced by the name Tim.

(electronics) Initialism of time interval meter.


bounce

en-verb

bounce (third-person singular simple present bounces, present participle bouncing, simple past and past participle bounced)

bounces (present singular third-person)
bouncing (participle present)
bounced (participle past)
bounced (past)

From Middle English bounsen, bunsen (“to beat, thump”), cognate with Scots bunce, bonce (“to bounce”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps imitative, related to bump, or related to Middle English bonchen (“to pound, beat”) and Dutch bonken (“to bump”).
Compare Saterland Frisian bumzje (“to pound, bang, bounce”), West Frisian bûnzje (“to throb, bounce, pulsate”), Dutch bonzen (“to thump, knock, throb, bounce”), German Low German bunsen, bumsen (“to beat, bounce”), German bumsen (“to thud, bang, pound”).

unc

uncertain

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

See if it helps to bounce the router.

(intransitive, electronics) To turn power off and back on; to reset.


call collect

en-verb

call collect (third-person singular simple present calls collect, present participle calling collect, simple past and past participle called collect)

calls collect (present singular third-person)
calling collect (participle present)
called collect (participle past)
called collect (past)

prank

method for limited but free communication

In the days of payphones, if you had no coins, you could call collect and hope that the callee would accept the charges.

(US, intransitive) To make a telephone call in which the cost of the call is paid by the person receiving the call.

soittaa vastapuhelu

to make a phone call paid by the person receiving the call


NO

(electronics, of a relay) Initialism of normally open.


mobile telephone

en-noun

mobile telephone (plural mobile telephones)

cell phone (US)/mobile phone, mobile (UK)


stereo

stereo (countable and uncountable, plural stereos)

Shortened form of stereotype, stereoscope or stereophonic, all originally derived from Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”).

der

He liked to listen to classical music on his stereo.

(by extension) Any object or device equipped with audio components that reproduces sound in stereo, such as a stereo console in the home.


strand

Origin uncertain. Cognate with Scots stran, strawn, strand (“strand”). Perhaps the same as strand ("rivulet, stream, gutter"; see Etymology 1 above); or from Middle English *stran, from Old French estran (“a rope, cord”), from Middle High German stren, strene (“skein, strand”), from Old High German streno, from Proto-West Germanic *strenō, from Proto-Germanic *strinô (“strip, strand”), from Proto-Indo-European *strēy-, *ster- (“strip, line, streak, ray, stripe, row”); related to Dutch streen (“skein, hank of thread, strand, string”), German Strähne (“skein, hank of thread, strand of hair”). Compare also Old High German stranga (“strand of hair”), modern German Strang (“strand, thread, cord”).

cog

(electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.

johdin

electronics: group of wires, usually twisted or braided


disk

→ Japanese: ディスク (disuku)

→ Korean: 디스크 (diseukeu)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: disk

→ Thai: ดิสก์ (dìt)

→ Turkish: disk

→ Welsh: disg

From Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “a circular plate suited for hurling”), from δικέω (dikéō, “to hurl, to launch”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, dish, and diskos.

doublet

He still uses disks from 1979.

(computer hardware) Ellipsis of floppy disk.

(computer hardware) Ellipsis of hard disk.

She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.

(computer hardware, nonstandard) An optical disc, such as a LaserDisc, CD, DVD, Blu-ray, or similar removable optical storage medium.


chopper

(electronics) Any of various electronic switches used to interrupt one signal under the control of another.


bulger

(electronics) A capacitor with a bulging top.

Something that has a bulge.
A capacitor with a bulging top.


anode

From Ancient Greek ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) and ὁδός (hodós, “path”), forming the New Greek compound ἄνοδος (ánodos). Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1834 for Michael Faraday, who introduced it later that year.

անոդ

the electrode of an electrochemical cell at which oxidation occurs

(electronics) The electrode which collects electrons emitted by the cathode in a vacuum tube or gas-filled tube.

(electronics) That electrode of a semiconductor device which is connected to the p-type material of a p-n junction.


diode

→ French: diode (see there for further descendants)

From di- + -ode. Learned formation, coined by William Eccles in 1919, after Ancient Greek δίοδος (díodos).

I propose to give the name diode to a tube with two electrodes.

1919 April 18, William Eccles, Electrician, page 475:

If a crystal or a diode is used, the amplifier-voltmeter combination may be used with an amplitude-modulated source; or with a c-w source, the detector may be connected to a microammeter or galvanometer as an indicating device.

1949, Samuel Silver, Microwave Antenna Theory and Design, page 593:

In this circuit when the diode is forward biased, the voltage across the diode remains fairly close to the diode's barrier potential.

2005, Robert Diffenderfer, Electronic Devices: Systems and Applications, page 69:

(electronics) An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier.


decay

en-verb

decay (third-person singular simple present decays, present participle decaying, simple past and past participle decayed)

decays (present singular third-person)
decaying (participle present)
decayed (participle past)
decayed (past)

From Middle English decayen, dekeyen (“to decrease, diminish”), from Anglo-Norman decaeir (“to fall away, decay, decline”), from Vulgar Latin *dēcadere, etymologically restored form of Latin dēcidere (“to fall away, fail, sink, perish”), from de (“down”) + cadere (“to fall”). Compare decadent and decadence.

der

(intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.

(intransitive, electronics, of storage media or the data on them) To undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation.


paster

(telephony) A diagram of the circuitry of a telephone, glued inside the telephone itself.


raster

/ˈɹɑːstə(ɹ)/

From German Raster, from Latin rāster, from rāstrum (“rake”, noun), from rādere (“to scrape”, verb).

(electronics) A scanning pattern of parallel lines that form the display of an image projected on a cathode-ray tube of a television set or display screen.


triode

A thermionic valve containing an anode, a cathode, and a control grid; small changes to the charge on the grid control the flow from cathode to anode, which makes amplification possible.


cue

From earlier qu, abbreviation of Latin quandō (“when”), marked on actor's play copy where they were to begin.

(electronics, computing) A marker or signal that triggers something, such as the start of an audio recording.


commutation

en-noun

commutation (countable and uncountable, plural commutations)

From French commutation, from Latin commūtātiōnem, accusative singular of commūtātiō.

(electronics) The reversal of an electric current.


assert

en-verb

assert (third-person singular simple present asserts, present participle asserting, simple past and past participle asserted)

asserts (present singular third-person)
asserting (participle present)
asserted (participle past)
asserted (past)

From Latin assertus, perfect passive participle of asserō (“declare someone free or a slave by laying hands upon him; hence free from, protect, defend; lay claim to, assert, declare”), from ad (“to”) + serō (“join, range in a row”).

(electronics) To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.


iris

irises (plural)
iris (plural)
irides (plural)

From Middle English [Term?], from Latin īris, from Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris, “rainbow”). Presuming an earlier form *ϝῖρις (*wîris), possibly from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *w(e)ih₁-ro- (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”). If so, it would be cognate to English wire.

der

(electronics) A constricted opening in the path inside a waveguide, used to form a resonator.


elaboration

en-noun

elaboration (countable and uncountable, plural elaborations)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-elaboration.wav

From Middle French élaboration.
Morphologically elaborate + -ion

(electronics) The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive (atomic) gates and statements.


arbiter

From Middle English arbiter, arbytour, arbitre, from Old French arbitre, from Latin arbiter (“a witness, judge, literally one who goes to see”).

der

(electronics) A component in circuitry that allocates scarce resources.


latch

From Middle English latche, lacche (“a latch; a trap”), from lacchen (“to seize, catch, grasp”), from Old English læċċan (“to grasp, take hold of, catch, seize”). See above for more.

inh

(electronics) An electronic circuit that is like a flip-flop, except that it is level triggered instead of edge triggered.


node

→ Irish: nód

From Middle English node, borrowed from Latin nōdus. Doublet of knot, knout, and nodus.

(electronics) A region of an electric circuit connected only by (ideal) wires (i.e the voltage between any two points on the same node must be zero).


mesh

From Middle English mesche, from Old English masc (“net”) (perhaps influenced in form by related Old English mæscre (“mesh, spot”)) both from Proto-Germanic *maskrǭ, *maskwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, twist, plait”).
Akin to Old High German māsca (“mesh”), Old Saxon maska (“net”), Old Norse mǫskvi, mǫskun (“mesh”).

der

Kirchhoff's voltage law
Kirchhoff's voltage law

(electronics) In mesh analysis: a loop in an electric circuit (to which Kirchhoff's voltage law can be applied).


yoke

From Middle English yok, yoke, ȝok from Old English ġeoc (“yoke”), from Proto-Germanic *juką (“yoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm (“yoke”), from *yewg- (“to join; to tie together, yoke”). Doublet of yuga, jugum, yoga and possibly yogh.
Senses 3.1 (“area of arable land”) and 3.2 (“amount of work done with draught animals”) probably referred to the area of land that could generally be ploughed by yoked draught animals within a given time.

poikkipuu

linking or supporting object that resembles a yoke

駕駛桿

device with crosspieces used to control an aircraft

iugum

unit of land area notionally equivalent to the area a team of yoked draft animals can work in a day

Senses relating to a frame around the neck.

Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.

(electronics) The electromagnetic coil that deflects the electron beam in a cathode ray tube.


core

en-noun

core (countable and uncountable, plural cores)

desc

Translingual: core eudicots, core Malvales

From Middle English core, kore, coor (“apple-core, pith”), of obscure and uncertain origin. Possibly of native English origin, from Old English *cor, related to Old English *coruc, *corc (diminutive) (> Middle English cork, crok (“core of a apple or other fruit, heart of an onion”)) and Old English corn (“seed", also "grain”); or alternatively perhaps from Old French cuer (“heart”), from Latin cor (“heart”); or from Old French cors (“body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Compare also Middle English colk, coke, coll (“the heart or centre of an apple or onion, core”), Dutch kern (“core”), German Kern (“core”). See also heart, corpse.

unc

obscure and uncertain

сърцеви́на

something that produces a hollow space in a casting

I wanted to play a particular computer game, which required I buy a new computer, so while the game said it needed at least a dual-core processor, I wanted my computer to be a bit ahead of the curve, so I bought a quad-core.

particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function:

(computer hardware) An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors (called cores or CPU cores) are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one (called a multi-core processor).

nüvə

one of several parts in a computer processor


secondary

From Middle English secundarie, from Latin secundārius (“of the second class or quality”), from secundus (whence the English second) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary), equivalent to second + -ary; compare the French secondaire, the Italian secondario, the Occitan secundari, the Portuguese secundario, and the Spanish secundario.

der

English numerals#Ordinal numbers
secondary

(electronics) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar.


player

From Middle English pleyer, playere, from Old English pleġere (“player, athlete, wrestler”), from Proto-West Germanic *plegārī. Equivalent to play + -er.

inh

Is your CD player broken, or is this one disc damaged?

(electronics) An electronic device that plays audio and/or video media.