BFC

(electronics, vulgar) big fucking capacitor - a high-voltage film capacitor suitable for use in power transmission, electric motor starters and applications involving electrical arcs


abfarad

(dated, electronics) A unit of capacitance equal to one billion (10⁹) farads, used in the centimeter-gram-second system of units


responsor

The duplexing circuits are located between the interrogator and the responsor at the common feed point to the antenna transmission line.

1947, Caldwell-Clements' Tele-Tech - Volume 6, page 64:

The distance between two points at which radio stations are located is determined: at one point is an interrogator (radar) , at the other a responsor (radio beacon) .

1961, Nikolaĭ Grigorʹevich Viduev, Radar in Engineering Explorations, page 31:

For a secondary radar system, however, two conditions must be satisfied : St > st and Sr > sr where st and sr are the minimum signals which can be detected by the transponder and responsor respectively.

1961, Electronic Engineering - Volume 33, page 415:

(electronics) A receiver used in conjunction with an interrogator to receive and interpret signals from a transponder.


shortcode

A special short telephone number for an SMS or MMS service, designed to be easier to remember.


prebaking

(electronics, physics) surface modification by heating prior to another operation


LEC

local exchange carrier
local exchange carrier#English

(telephony) Abbreviation of local exchange carrier.


telemarket

en-verb

telemarket (third-person singular simple present telemarkets, present participle telemarketing, simple past and past participle telemarketed)

telemarkets (present singular third-person)
telemarketing (participle present)
telemarketed (participle past)
telemarketed (past)

If people hate to receive telephone sales calls, why should you telemarket?

2002, Niels H. Nielsen, Princeton Management Consultants guide to your new job:

I tried canvassing for a paint company, and failed. I telemarketed for another business, and failed. I had no people skills.

2003, Jim Penman, What will they franchise next?: the story of Jim's Group:

In addition, nearly every company that telemarkets is subject to the FCC's telemarketing rules, which were expanded in July 2003...

2004, Jody R. Westby, International guide to privacy:

(intransitive) To engage in telemarketing (unsolicited telephone calls to potential customers).


band-stop

(electronics) Filtering out a specific range of electromagnetic frequencies.


radio-telephone

Another interesting feature of the Falaise is that she is provided with a Denny Brown stabiliser to minimise rolling, and amenities for the passenger include the provision of a radio telephone service, which is available on passage.

1947 September and October, “First Southern Railway Post-War Vessel”, in Railway Magazine, page 294:

Recently the L.M.R., in conjunction with Pye Telecommunications and the G.P.O., has been conducting trials between Crewe, Lancaster, Birkenhead, Liverpool and Manchester with a brakevan fitted up with radio-telephone equipment and beamed on G.P.O. radio-telephone stations in the Manchester and Liverpool area.

1960 April, “Talking of Trains: Telephones in trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 197:

In accordance with Southampton Docks practice for shunting engines during the past four years, a radio-telephone in the cab allows two-way conversation with the Dock Traffic Control Office.

1962 September, “Diesels take over at Southampton Docks”, in Modern Railways, page 171:

(telephony) Alternative spelling of radiotelephone


negative edge

(electronics) The point in time when a signal's value becomes low.


negative-edge-triggered

Master-slave flip-flops tend to be negative-edge-triggered; however, the clock input can be inverted in order to make the master-slave flip-flop be positive-edge-triggered.

(electronics) Describing a circuit or component that changes its state only when an input signal becomes low.


PDLC

(electronics) polymer dispersed liquid crystal.


nonsmart

Fixed beams are quite easy to form and may be viewed as an extension of older nonsmart antenna systems (where directional selectivity was achieved by the design of propagation patterns from single antenna elements).

2003, George M. Calhoun, Third Generation Wireless Systems: Post-Shannon signal architectures, page 360:

Only a few nonsmart models, primarily newer Razr models and a few Nokia phones, can run Yahoo Go. And once again, no Verizon phones need apply.

2007 May 24, David Pogue, “How to Make Your Cellphone Act Like a BlackBerry”, in New York Times:


DIMM

dual in-line memory module
w:dual in-line memory module

(computer hardware) Initialism of dual in-line memory module.


(electronics, historical) Ellipsis of PS/2 port, the serial I/O interface standard created for the IBM PS/2 keyboard and mouse.


butt dial

(Canada, US, colloquial) A situation when one's cellphone makes a call from one's back pocket where its buttons are being inadvertently pressed


butt dial

butt dial (third-person singular simple present butt dials, present participle (US) butt dialing or (Commonwealth) butt dialling, simple past and past participle (US) butt dialed or (Commonwealth) butt dialled)

butt dials (present singular third-person)
butt dialing (US participle present)
butt dialling (Commonwealth participle present)
butt dialed (US participle past)
butt dialed (US past)
butt dialled (Commonwealth participle past)
butt dialled (Commonwealth past)

(Canada, US, colloquial) To accidentally make a call this way.


phone in

phone in (third-person singular simple present phones in, present participle phoning in, simple past and past participle phoned in)

phones in (present singular third-person)
phoning in (participle present)
phoned in (participle past)
phoned in (past)

(transitive) To make a telephone call to a broadcasting station, especially to participate in a program being aired.


trimphone

From trim + phone, originally a trademark, with trim explained as Tone Ring Illuminator Model.

Song thrushes normally have a large song repertoire, and Slater suggests that the trimphone sound has been taken up because it is sufficiently similar to the normal songs to be learned and imitated[…]

1983 April 14, New Scientist, volume 98, number 1353:

While an acoustic coupler can be used with ordinary telephones, it cannot be used with modern trimphones[…]

1986, Barry Strickland-Hodge, Barbara Allan, Medical information: a profile, page 54:

(UK) A luxury telephone of the 1960s with a then-innovative electronic ringer and illuminated dial.


pad down

pad down (third-person singular simple present pads down, present participle padding down, simple past and past participle padded down)

pads down (present singular third-person)
padding down (participle present)
padded down (participle past)
padded down (past)

Amateur radio W40AB has come up with a slick gadget to pad down the gain of high output converters.

1962, CQ: The Radio Amateurs' Journal - Volume 18, Issue 2, page 61:

If the bass has active electronics, you may have to pad down (reduce) the signal to avoid distortion.

1996, Peter McIan, Using Your Portable Studio, →ISBN, page 154:

You can build these inline into those Switchcraft XLR barrel plugs if you need to pad down signals.

2010, Larry Crane, Tape Op: The Book about Creative Music Recording, →ISBN:

(transitive, electronics) To reduce a signal.


reset button

(electronics) A button that resets something.


OTA

en-noun

OTA (countable and uncountable, plural OTAs)

(electronics) Initialism of operational transconductance amplifier.


webphone

(telephony) A telephone that connects through the Internet.


SATA cable

(computing) A particular high-speed serial cable


conventional memory

(computing, computer hardware) The first 640 kilobytes of RAM in an IBM-compatible PC.


IDE cable

(computing) A 40-pin parallel cable used between personal computers and storage devices.


9-1-1
Federal Communication Commission
National Emergency Number Association
United States

The official form of the service's name in regulations and materials from the United States National Emergency Number Association and Federal Communication Commission.


9-1-1 (countable and uncountable, plural 9-1-1s)


PSM

PSM (countable and uncountable, plural PSMs)

(electromechanics, electronics, automotive) Initialism of permanent-magnet synchronous motor.


ULSI

ultra large scale integration
ultra large scale integration#English

(electronics) Abbreviation of ultra large scale integration.


VLSI

very large scale integration
very large scale integration#English

(electronics) Abbreviation of very large scale integration.


pretrigger

(electronics) Prior to the activation of a trigger.


pretrigger

(electronics) A short pulse issued in advance of a longer one


handphone

→ Korean: 핸드폰 (haendeupon)

From hand + phone. For the sense of mobile phone, compare with Chinese 手機／手机 (shǒujī, literally “hand machine”) and Korean 손전화 (sonjeonhwa, literally “hand telephone”).

cog

(Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Brunei, South Korea, Hawaii) A mobile phone.


tape out

en-verb

tape out (third-person singular simple present tapes out, present participle taping out, simple past and past participle taped out)

tapes out (present singular third-person)
taping out (participle present)
taped out (participle past)
taped out (past)

(electronics) To complete the design of an integrated circuit so that the photomask can be sent out for fabrication.


ACRR

(electronics) adjacent-channel rejection ratio; the resulting measurement of comparing signal strength with a similar signal on another frequency if they are on adjacent channels.


floorplanning

(electronics) The act of designing a floor plan (electronic circuit design).


VSS

(electronics), one of the power-supply pins on some integrated circuits


dialable

en-adj

dialable (comparative more dialable, superlative most dialable)

more dialable (comparative)
most dialable (superlative)

Multiple open pages (like tabs), fonts, layouts, pop-up menus, checkboxes, clickable links and dialable phone numbers (tap with your finger).

2007 June 28, David Pogue, “Often-Asked iPhone Questions”, in New York Times:


VCC

(electronics, also V_(CC)) Common Collector Voltage; the positive supply voltage for an integrated circuit containing bipolar junction transistors.


PABX

private automatic branch exchange
private branch exchange#English

(telephony) Initialism of private automatic branch exchange.


suicide battery

en-noun

suicide battery (plural suicide batteries)

(electronics) A battery whose purpose is, in addition to powering an electronic device, making the powered device permanently unusable once the energy is exhausted.


discrete component

discrete component (plural discrete components)

(electronics) a component with just one circuit element, either passive (resistor, capacitor, inductor) or active (transistor or vacuum tube).


Small Scale Integration

(electronics) an integration type for digital circuits that contain transistors numbering in the tens providing a few logic gates per chip


WSI

wafer-scale integration
wafer-scale integration#English

(electronics) Initialism of wafer-scale integration.


medium scale integration

(electronics) An integration type for digital circuits that contain hundreds of transistors providing dozens of logic gates per chip.


large scale integration

(electronics) An integration type for digital circuits that contain tens of thousands of transistors providing thousands of logic gates per chip.


wafer-scale integration

(electronics) A rarely-used system of building very large integrated circuit networks that use an entire silicon wafer to produce a single "super-chip".


ultra large scale integration

ultra large scale integration (uncountable)

(electronics) An integration type for digital circuits that contain more than one million transistors providing hundreds of thousands of logic gates per chip.


very large scale integration

very large scale integration (uncountable)

(electronics) An integration type for digital circuits that contain hundreds of thousands of transistors providing hundreds of thousands of logic gates per chip.


uncommitted logic array

uncommitted logic array (plural uncommitted logic arrays)


gate array

(electronics) an integrated circuit that is a prefabricated silicon chip circuit with no particular function except standard functions like NAND or NOR logic gates, and other active devices.


field-programmable gate array

field-programmable gate array (plural field-programmable gate arrays)

(electronics) a gate array designed to be configured by the customer or designer after manufacturing in the field, i.e. after manufacturing.


turn-by-turn navigation

(electronics, computing, automotive) A feature of GPS devices, particularly smartphones, that continuously gives directions as the person or vehicle approaches navigation points.


featurephone

From feature + phone. From being a feature-rich cellphone, more capable than prior iterations of mobile phone.

(dated) A telephone, especially a mobile phone, that has some advanced capabilities but is not as powerful as a smartphone.

非智能手機

mobile phone that is not as powerful as a smartphone


mastertone

In a written statement, Universal said it was disappointed that “the Marley estate has chosen to take such an extreme and meritless position that a customary promotional campaign highlighting the availability of Marley mastertones somehow constitutes an ‘endorsement’ of Verizon over all.”

2007 September 14, Andrew Adam Newman, “Marley Family’s Vitriol Leads Verizon to Bite Back”, in New York Times:

A ringtone consisting of an extract from an original recorded work (and not a synthesised imitation).


telegraphese

Vythilingam said: "Injection every day. Perhaps all right then." Anstruther had not been long in Malaya. He attributed this wog's clipped telegraphese to the shyness of one who meets socially a racial superior.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 2000, page 575:

Despite the new gadgetry, these journalists are actually rediscovering telegraphese — the clipped (ideally witty) style that flourished because of word limits imposed by an earlier technology, the telegraph.

2008 January 21, Noam Cohen, “Campaign Reporting in Under 140 Taps”, in New York Times:

The terse, abbreviated writing style used in or as used in telegraph messages; speech that resembles this.


dumbphone

From dumb + phone, constructed as an antonym to smartphone.

The Boring Phone is part of a new dumbphone boom, built on the suspicion of gen Z towards the data- and attention-harvesting technologies they have grown up with.

2024 April 27, James Tapper, Aneesa Ahmed, “The ‘boring phone’: stressed-out gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

(informal) A cell phone that does not have any functionality characteristic of a smartphone.


rotary phone

(telephony) A telephone with a rotary dial.


level-triggered

(electronics) Describing a circuit or component whose output is sensitive to changes of the inputs only so long as the clock input's signal is high.

tasoherkkä

whose output is sensitive to changes when clock signal is high


duty cycle

(electronics) The ratio between the amount of time in which the clock's signal is high and the clock's period.


edge-triggered

(electronics) Describing a circuit or component which is either positive-edge-triggered or negative-edge-triggered.


SLD

semiconductor laser diode
semiconductor laser diode#English

(electronics) Initialism of semiconductor laser diode.


AMOLED

Acronym of active matrix organic light-emitting diode.

acronym

(electronics) Abbreviation of active matrix OLED, a display technology for use in mobile devices and televisions.


netlist

(electronics) A technical description of the connectivity of an electronic design.


squeg

en-verb

squeg (third-person singular simple present squegs, present participle squegging, simple past and past participle squegged)

squegs (present singular third-person)
squegging (participle present)
squegged (participle past)
squegged (past)

(transitive, electronics) To undergo squegging.


Data Carrier Equipment

en-noun

Data Carrier Equipment (usually uncountable, plural Data Carrier Equipments)

(computer hardware) Synonym of Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment


Data Communications Equipment

Data Communications Equipment (usually uncountable, plural Data Communications Equipments)


Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment

Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment (usually uncountable, plural Data Circuit-Terminating Equipments)

Data Circuit-Terminating Equipments (plural)

data terminal equipment
Data Terminal Equipment

(computer hardware) A device interconnecting data terminal equipment (DTE) and a data transmission circuit.


DTE

DTE (countable and uncountable, plural DTEs)

Data Terminal Equipment
Data Terminal Equipment

(computer hardware) Data Terminal Equipment

(electronics, automotive) Distance to Empty


data terminal equipment

data terminal equipment (plural data terminal equipments)

(computer hardware) an end instrument that converts user information into signals or reconverts received signals.


DCE

data circuit-terminating equipment
w:data circuit-terminating equipment

(computer hardware) Initialism of data circuit-terminating equipment.


PNP

PNP (countable and uncountable, plural PNPs)


THT

Coordinate term: SMT

through-hole technology
through-hole technology#English

(electronics) Initialism of through-hole technology.


PTH

plated through-hole
w:plated through-hole

(electronics) Initialism of plated through-hole.


through-hole technology

through-hole technology (plural through-hole technologies)

Coordinate term: surface-mount technology

printed circuit board
printed circuit board

(electronics) Mounting scheme used for electronic components that involves the use of leads on the components that are inserted into holes drilled in printed circuit boards and soldered to pads on the opposite side.


optical drive

(computer hardware) A drive that reads optical media.


microphonics

From microphone + -ics or micro- + phonics.

(electronics) The phenomenon where certain components in electronic devices transform mechanical vibrations into an unwanted electrical signal.

microphony

translation of vibrations into electrical signal


ULF

Ultra Low Frequency
ultra low frequency#English

(electronics) Initialism of Ultra Low Frequency, the band of radio waves between 300 hertz and 3000 hertz.


extremely low frequency

extremely low frequency (countable and uncountable, plural extremely low frequencies)

(electronics) The band of radio frequencies from 3 to 30 hertz.


ultra low frequency

ultra low frequency (plural ultra low frequencies)

(electronics) Ultra Low Frequency, the band of radio waves between 300 hertz and 3000 hertz.


omnigraph

An automatic telegraph code-sound producer used to learn telegraph code.


dual SIM

dual + SIM (i.e. Subscriber Identity Module)

(mobile telephony) holding two SIM cards


triple SIM

triple + SIM (i.e. Subscriber Identity Module)

(mobile telephony) holding three SIM cards


Steiner point

I created a Steiner point in my layout design at the point where I want my net's routing to branch.

(electronics) One vertex of a Steiner tree.


ALS

ALS (countable and uncountable, plural ALSs or ALSes)

Another RVR element, the ambient light sensor (ALS), is used to interpret the impact that background lighting, such as nearby runway lights, might have on the overall visibility measurement. Normally two ALSs are installed in central locations relative to the airfield environment.

2017 May 3, Rob Mark, “How It Works: Runway Visual Range”, in Flying:

ambient light sensor
w:ambient light sensor

(electronics, countable) Initialism of ambient light sensor.


give someone a ring

en-verb

give someone a ring (third-person singular simple present gives someone a ring, present participle giving someone a ring, simple past gave someone a ring, past participle given someone a ring)

gives someone a ring (present singular third-person)
giving someone a ring (participle present)
gave someone a ring (past)
given someone a ring (participle past)

From the sound of older telephones receiving a call not yet answered.

(idiomatic) To place a telephone call to someone.


interaxis

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

However, interaxis perpendicularity errors will be included [ see paragraph M ) ] .

1954, Institute of Radio Engineers. Professional Group on Component Parts, Transactions - Volume 1, Issue 1 - Volume 4, Issue 3, page 5:

Inherent electrical errors, which consist of conformity and interaxis errors, result from rotor and stator ellipticity and eccentricity, and imperfect winding and flux distribution.

1985, Harold A. Rothbart, Mechanical Design and Systems Handbook, page 41-11:

For rotor interaxis error, one stator winding is excited; for stator interaxis error, one rotor winding is excited.

1999, Rudolf F. Graf, Modern Dictionary of Electronics, page 384:

For less aggressive maneuvers, it simply states that interaxis coupling should not be objectionable. Interaxis coupling is measured by making an input in the desired axis and holding the other axes fixed.

2000, Society of Experimental Test Pilots. Symposium, Symposium Proceedings - Volumes 44-45, page 128:

These accelerometers have a sensitivity of 10−11 mss −2 Hz−1/2, and an interaxis orthogonality and interaxis alignment accuracy of 10−6 rad.

2006, Fritz K. Brunner, Chris Rizos, Developments in Four-Dimensional Geodesy:

In addition, the adaptive controller is able to minimize the interaxis offset error (by manipulation of the parameter K; see (11.22)), whereas the decoupled PID controller was only able to track individual trajectories independently.

2007, Clarence W. de Silva, Mechatronic Systems, page 6-91:

(electronics) Pertaining to the perpendicularity (or deviation therefrom) of a set of resolver windings when another set of windings is excited.


unclocked

Any information stored in an unclocked bistable is vulnerable to spurious events such as glitches[…]

2008, Hubert Kaeslin, Digital integrated circuit design, page 756:

(electronics) Not measured or regulated by a clock; asynchronous.


CVBS

(electronics, consumer) composite video, blanking and sync


composite video, blanking, and sync

en-noun

composite video, blanking, and sync (uncountable)

(electronics, consumer) Standardised format of an analog picture-only television signal.

Farb-Bild-Austast-Synchronsignal

standardised format of an analog picture-only television signal


UHV

(electronics) Initialism of ultra-high voltage.


unicore

(computer hardware, of a processor) Having only one core.


capacitor plague

electrolytic capacitor
electrolytic capacitor

(electronics, informal) Premature failure of an electrolytic capacitor, especially when several are beginning to fail at the same time in a piece of equipment (due, for example, to high demands imposed by the circuit design, such as in a switchmode power supply), necessitating "re-capping" (i.e. replacing many capacitors after disconnecting the power and waiting for lethal charge to dissipate).


electrolytic capacitor

electrolytic capacitor (plural electrolytic capacitors)

(electronics) A capacitor that uses an electrolyte as one of its capacitative plates.


fanout

fanout (countable and uncountable, plural fanouts)

B+ trees have very high fanout, which reduces the number of I/O operations required to find an element in the tree.

The fanout of a logic gate output is the number of gate inputs to which it is connected.

(computing, electronics) The degree to which something fans out, or splits into separate sections.


cellular telephone

cellular telephone (plural cellular telephones)

French: téléphone cellulaire m


overtrip

en-verb

overtrip (third-person singular simple present overtrips, present participle overtripping, simple past and past participle overtripped)

overtrips (present singular third-person)
overtripping (participle present)
overtripped (participle past)
overtripped (past)

In order not to overtrip for faults behind the relay, it should be set to allow a CTI of about 0.6 second .

1992, Stanley H. Horowitz, Protective Relaying for Power Systems II, page 131:

Cross-polarized mho relays would under some fault conditions overtrip for faults on adjacent lines because of the use of a single comparator for both the direction and reach measurement, and therefore additional measuring criteria are required.

2003, Walter A. Elmore, Protective Relaying: Theory and Applications, page 482:

Switchgear ACB C2 in the switchyard service building that houses 12.8-kV switchgear overtripped during the fault.

2011, Mohamed A. Ibrahim, Disturbance Analysis for Power Systems, page 507:

(electronics) To be oversensitive in triggering a fail-safe mechanism, especially to incorrectly activate or trip a circuit breaker.


overtrip

As noted previously, the west coast blackout of July 2, 1996, was initiated by an overtrip that resulted in the simultaneous loss of two 345 kV lines.

2014, J. Lewis Blackburn, Thomas J. Domin, Protective Relaying: Principles and Applications, page 599:

However, these schemes may overtrip for out-of-section faults that occur while the channel is not available.

2017, Surya Santoso, H. Wayne Beaty, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, page 1188:

When selecting setpoints for overcurrent relays, margins need to be included in order to account for errors that could result in an overtrip or a failure to trip.

2018, Anthony M. Sleva, Protective Relay Principles, page 186:

(electronics) An instance of overtripping.


tickey box

From tickey, obsolete South African slang for a threepenny coin (the cost of a payphone call at the time of the term's origin), and box (telephone kiosk).

[…] He phones his mother in Hopetown every afternoon from the tickey box in the hostel.'

2002, Michiel Heyns, The Children's Day, Jonathan Ball Publishers, published 2002, →ISBN, page 81:

“Come with us. Father may even have some coins for another tickey box. One that works,” Vusi said with mirth.


taxel

From tactile element, modelled on pixel.

(computing, electronics) A tactile element in robotics etc.


peckerhead

From picker + head, alluding to the similarity between the terminal box on a motor and the rotating head of used to pick fruit.

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


clamper

(electronics) A circuit that restricts the amplitude of a waveform.


CPE

en-noun

CPE (countable and uncountable, plural CPEs)

(telephony) Abbreviation of customer-premises equipment.


SFG

SFG (countable and uncountable, plural SFGs)

signal-flow graph
signal-flow graph#English

(electronics, countable) Initialism of signal-flow graph.


ringxiety

/ɹɪŋzˈaɪəti/

I reach for my cellphone, only to discover that it's not ringing.
"Damn it, this has been happening all week. Maybe I do have ringxiety."

2011, Lynn Schnurnberger, The Best Laid Plans, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 71:

(neologism, informal) The anxiety resulting from the mistaken belief that one's cell phone or mobile is ringing or vibrating.


surveillance camera

surveillance camera (plural surveillance cameras)

Coldly perusing his surveillance cameras one day, Mr. Burns spies nothing but grotesque misconduct: Instead of working, his employees engage in limbo contests, chess games, and, of course, cockfights.

2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:

A reported 200m surveillance cameras around the country are doing everything from tracking shoppers in stores to preventing violent crime to catching jaywalkers.

2019 May 21, Dylan Curran, “Facial recognition will soon be everywhere. Are we prepared?”, in The Guardian:

closed-circuit television
closed-circuit television

A mounted video camera used for the purpose of surveillance, as part of closed-circuit television.


crank call

Bart is predictably devastated, but the plot thread wraps itself up all too neatly when Bart gets Laura to see through Jimbo’s bad-boy façade by framing Jimbo for one of his own habitual crank calls to Moe.

2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:


DIP switch

From DIP (“dual in-line package”) + switch.

(electronics, computing) A miniature switch designed to be attached to a circuit board to customize the behavior of the circuit.


digital-to-analog converter

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

Coordinate term: analog-to-digital converter

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

digitaali-analogiamuunnin

device that converts digital signal to analog signal


FDM

frequency-division multiplexing
w:Frequency-division multiplexing

(electronics) Initialism of frequency-division multiplexing.


security camera

security camera (plural security cameras)

A video camera used to protect a building from intruders and to detect crime and other issues.


A battery

(dated, electronics) A battery used to heat the filament or cathode heaters of electron tubes.

hehkuparisto

battery to heat the filament of electron tube


near field

(electronics, communication) The region within about half a wavelength from an electrically small antenna. More specifically it is the region within the radiansphere.


public telephone

public telephone (plural public telephones)


programmable logic array

programmable logic array (plural programmable logic arrays)

(electronics) Is a kind of programmable logic device used to implement combinational logic circuits.


emitter-coupled logic

emitter-coupled logic (usually uncountable, plural emitter-coupled logics)

(electronics) A logic family that achieves high speed by using an overdriven BJT differential amplifier with single-ended input.


hardware description language

hardware description language (plural hardware description languages)

(electronics) Any language from a class of computer, modeling, or specification languages for formal description and design of analogue or digital logic electronic circuits.


timebase

(television, electronics) A time period used as a base measurement or frequency.


Samsung

Borrowed from Korean 삼성(三星) (Samseong), literally “tristar” or “three stars”, combined to represent “powerful eternity”.

[Some of] them, potentially, are the Sonys and Samsungs of tomorrow. Some companies try to lure customers to their booths with food: a soft ice cream machine maker plies passersby with free cones, a wine fountain maker touts cups of sour red.

2008, Alexandra Harney, The China Price: The True Cost, →ISBN, page 13:

Now they are required to be profitable and may find that North Korea is not worth the risk. Perhaps North Korea will need to found its own Hyundais and Samsungs and hire South Koreans as executives and consultants.

2011, Michael Breen, Kim Jong-Il, Revised and Updated, →ISBN, page 134:

But without its own respected brands, its Toyotas and Samsungs, China will always languish at the lower end of the value chain.

2013, Richard Rosecrance, The Resurgence of the West, →ISBN:

The Sonys, Sanyos, and Samsungs of the world — not to mention Chinese upstarts — all have access to the same huge pool of chips, liquid crystal displays, audio pickups, power supplies, and packaging.

2015, Panos Mourdoukoutas, Business Strategy in a Semiglobal Economy, →ISBN, page 29:

A South Korean conglomerate company which manufactures electronics and ships.


Samsung

The advantage of the Hercules card over the EGA is that it can be used with a standard IBM Monochrome Monitor or an inexpensive monochrome monitor such as a Samsung, priced at around $100.

When a grandmother from Pittsburgh bought a Samsung, she bought the most reliable microwave oven made.

1990 April 23, Luce, Henry Robinson, Fortune:

A consumer electronic device manufactured by the South Korean conglomerate company Samsung.

They are wearing pajamas and shouldering pillows, with iPhones in their left hands and Samsungs in their right hands.

2014, Min Ding, Jie Xu, The Chinese Way, →ISBN, page 337:

Everywhere Nokias and Samsungs are stapled to eager ears, clipped onto trousers or slipped into purses.

2007, Susan Reinhardt, Don't Sleep with A Bubba: Unless Your Eggs Are in Wheelchairs, →ISBN:


(computer hardware, serial bus) Initialism of Inter-Integrated Circuit, a standard for integrated circuit communication using two lines.


model-based design

model-based design (plural model-based designs)

(electronics, communication, signal processing, mathematics, software testing) A mathematical and visual method of addressing problems associated with designing complex control, signal processing and communication systems.


TTL

TTL (countable and uncountable, plural TTLs)

(electronics) Initialism of transistor–transistor logic.


4G LTE

(telephony, mobile telephony) Synonym of LTE (Long Term Evolution)


long term evolution

(telephony, mobile telephony) A standard marketed as 4G LTE for wireless communication of high-speed data for mobile phones and data terminals.


UFD

(electronics) Initialism of USB Flash Drive.


PUT

PUT (countable and uncountable, plural PUTs)

(software, testing) Acronym of parameterized unit test.

(software, testing) Acronym of parameterized unit testing.

(electronics) Initialism of programmable unijunction transistor.


autopatch

(radio) A device that allows users to make telephone calls via a repeater


parasitic element

parasitic element (plural parasitic elements)

(electronics) A circuit element or property that is present within an electrical component, and has a negative effect on the performance of the circuit.

element pasożytniczy

circuit element or property that has a negative effect on the performance of the circuit


data stick

(computer hardware) Synonym of flash drive


pf

(electronics) Initialism of power factor.


QDR

(electronics) Initialism of quad data rate.


(telephony) Number 1 electronic automatic exchange.


(telephony) Abbreviation of Number 1A Electronic Switching System.


(telephony) Initialism of one-gigabaud fiber channel.


(telephony) Abbreviation of Number 1 Electronic Switching System.


(telephony) Number 1A voice storage system.


buncher

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

The pulse width can be decreased by means of a buncher, which consists of a longitudinal re-entrant cavity. The first electrons to reach the buncher are accelerated by a weaker longitudinal field than those that reach it at later times.

1998, Ludwig Reimer, Scanning Electron Microscopy: Physics of Image Formation and Microanalysis, page 44:

Amplification has taken place because in the buncher grids the electrons are affected very little, but in the drift space this effect is given time to grow and the bunching becomes much more pronounced.[…]After leaving the buncher field the electrons travel towards the plate, are slowed down, stopped and then reattracted by the buncher.

2000, Andrew Leven, Telecommunication Circuits and Technology, page 364:

A two cavity Klystron amplifier consists of a cathode, focussing electrodes, two buncher grids separated by a very small distance forming a gap of two catcher grids with small gap B followed by a collector.

2009, V.S.Bagad, Microwave & Radar Engineering, pages 5–8:

Something that bunches or causes to bunch.

(electronics, physics) A circuit that causes electrons or other charged particles in a particle beam to group together.


phablet

@JGallo02 With that device it would be worth getting a pay as you go account just for that phablet. I can't wait for them to ship here

2009 September 3, Sloan Bowman, tweet https://twitter.com/sloanb/status/3725657504, Twitter

@sloanb phablet? dude, it's an uber-smart-phone with a sick open operating system called #maemo5 #n900 rocks

2009 September 3, Joe Gallo, tweet https://twitter.com/JGallo02/status/3725692942, Twitter

@JGallo02 You guys are marketing it as a internet tablet at all? phablet = Phone/Tablet. And I agree I love Maemo especially V.5

2009 September 3, Sloan Bowman, tweet https://twitter.com/sloanb/status/3725777613, Twitter

(neologism) A mobile device intermediate in size between smartphone and tablet.


spacistor

(electronics) A kind of transistor developed in the 1950s.


autogain

(electronics) automatic amplification of a signal


JFET

(electronics) Initialism of junction field effect transistor.


PDP

(electronics) Initialism of plasma display panel.


keyphone

A desk telephone with additional buttons and features.


synchronous speed

synchronous speed (plural synchronous speeds)

(electronics) The frequency of rotation of the magnetic field inside an AC induction motor.


ratioless

ratioless logic

a ratioless inverter

(electronics) Not based on the relative sizes of components in a circuit.


transmodulation

transmodulation (countable and uncountable, plural transmodulations)

(biochemistry, electronics) The modulation (or regulation) of a secondary system.


cathode ray tube

cathode ray tube (plural cathode ray tubes)

(electronics) A vacuum tube that displays still or moving images (such as for a television), by controlling the direction of a cathode ray emitted towards the front of the tube. The front is coated by a layer of fluorescent material, so that it emits light when struck by the beam.


flip phone

A genericized trademark of the company Motorola for their clamshell-form mobile phones

Brian (Kyle Secor) tells the salesman they'll be phasing out fridges and freezers for faxes and flip phones.

1992 Sept. 3, "‘Ages’ takes time to look at signposts of life at 40" (review of TV show Middle Ages), Washington Times (retrieved 18 August 2013)

Motorola's new flip phone doubles as a modem for your laptop.

2000 April 3, “Contents: Cellular Browsing”, in Time, retrieved 2013-08-18:

They just will not help you do the hard work of finding someone who actually wants your contract and the vintage flip phone that came with it.

2008 December 31, Bob Tedeschi, “With a Little Help, You Can Trade Yourself Free of Your Wireless Contract”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-08-18:

A mobile telephone with a hinged top that is flipped open when the phone is in use.


Cat 5

Cat-5 UTP cable – level 5 cables have twisted-pair cores with a characteristic impedance of 100Ω (±15Ω) and a capacitance of 45.9 pF/m. Conductor resistance is around 9Ω/100 m.

2000, Bill Buchanan, Computer Busses: Design and Application, Arnold, London, →ISBN, page 60:

When first connecting the service, it may be necessary to connect the Cat 5 or Cat 6 Ethernet cable directly to the computer to sign up with the ISP before inserting the router/firewall and switch between the modem and the computer(s).

2006, Dennis C. Brewer, Paul A. Brewer, Wiring Your Digital Home For Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 200:

On Cat 5 cable, the jacket is usually stamped with the manufacturer’s name and cable type, including the Cat 5 specification.

2010, Tamara Dean, Network+ Guide to Networks, fifth edition, Course Technology, Cengage Learning, chapter 3 “Transmission Basics and Networking Media”

(computer hardware) A twisted pair cable for carrying signals, particularly for Ethernet-based computer networks.


slider phone

A style of mobile phone that allows an additional keypad to slide open for use.


legacy-free

(computer hardware, of a personal computer) Lacking certain older components such as a floppy disk drive, legacy ports, and ISA or other expansion bus.


Veroboard

Veroboard (countable and uncountable, plural Veroboards)

/ˈvɪəɹəʊbɔː(ɹ)d/

From Vero Technologies Ltd + board, a trademark in the United Kingdom.


stripboard

stripboard (countable and uncountable, plural stripboards)

[ˈstɹɪʰbɔəd]

[ˈstɹɪʰbɔːd]

From strip + board, named for its characteristic strips of copper cladding.

(electronics, uncountable) A type of prototyping board characterized by a ⅒″ regular rectangular grid of holes, with wide parallel strips of copper cladding running in one direction all the way across one side of the board.

reikäpiirilevy

prototyping board with strips of copper cladding

(electronics, countable) A piece of given dimensions of such a prototyping board.


what hath God wrought

Archaic form of the question “what has God made?”, from the Bible, King James Version; popularized especially by being used as the first message sent by telegraph in the United States, by Samuel Morse (May 24, 1844).

A divine unction evidently attended his ministry, and such were the effects produced, that every beholder, with astonishment and admiration, cried "what hath God wrought!"

1855, Thomas Raffles, A Burning and A Shining Light, page 151:

"Oh, my God !" he cried. "He's invented photography." "What hath God wrought?" said the old man, trying to get up.

1925, Donald Ogden Stewart, The Crazy Fool, page 224:

Surely of this work, and of this time, it shall be said, what hath God wrought!

1969, Paul W. Glad, The Process of American History: Early America, page 84:

When Frank put the receiver to his ear, a sepulchral voice asked, "What hath God wrought?"

1987, Edward Fischer, Notre Dame Remembered: An Autobiography, page 173:

The rich man got up, called off the suit and everybody said, “What hath God wrought?”

2011, A. W. Tozer, James L. Snyder, A Disruptive Faith: Expect God to Interrupt Your Life, page 186:

(archaic) An expression of wonder and marvel at something.


power brick

From its size and shape, similar to a brick.

(electronics, slang) A power supply for an electronic device which is similar in size, shape, and weight of a brick, which plugs into the device using a cord, and to the main supply by another cord.


quadripole

(electronics) An electrical circuit that has two pairs of external terminals.

quadripôle

electrical circuit with two pairs of external terminals


serial time-encoded amplified microscopy (uncountable)

(electronics) A very fast real-time optical imaging technique.


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

(electronics) A device for digitizing analog signals of very high bandwidth, effectively slowing down the original signal in time (or compressing its bandwidth) before it can be digitized by a slow electronic ADC.


autozeroing

(electronics) A sampling technique that measures an offset from zero and later compensates by subtracting the difference.


crossed line

(telephony) situation when portions of a second call are audible to persons on a telephone connection.


telegrapheme

Every one has been told at school how telegram ought to be telegrapheme; but by this time we have long ceased to mourn for the extra syllable, and begun seriously to consider whether the further shortening into wire has not been resisted as long as honour demands.

[1908, H.W. Fowler, chapter I, in The King's English, 2nd edition:


junctor

A juncture, especially a means of attaching incoming and outgoing lines in an analog telephone exchange


childline

From child + line, from the company name ChildLine.

A childline service has been initiated by the ministry under the integrated programme for street children.

2004, J. S. Rajput, Encyclopaedia of Indian Education: A-K, page 239:

At the time of the Gujarat earthquake, the Childline India Foundation (CIF) had been established with childlines in several cities and district towns of India.

2007, Lena Dominelli, Revitalising Communities in a Globalising World, page 306:

The Committee, Special Juvenile Police Units, public servants, childlines, voluntary organizations, social workers and the children themselves may refer a child to such shelter homes.

2010, Vijay Hansaria, P. I. Jose, Juvenile Justice System, page 239:

(India) A telephone counselling service for children and young people.


missed call

(telephoning) A telephone call which the responder does not answer.

مُكَالِمَةٌ فَائِتَةٌ

a telephone call which the responder does not answer

(telephoning) A telephone call that is deliberately terminated by the caller before being answered by its intended recipient in order to communicate a pre-agreed message.


UJT

unijunction transistor
unijunction transistor#English

(electronics) Initialism of unijunction transistor.


QFET

quantum field effect transistor
quantum field effect transistor#English

(electronics) Acronym of quantum field effect transistor.


needle telegraph

needle telegraph (plural needle telegraphs)

A telegraph in which the signals are given by the deflections of a magnetic needle to the right or to the left of a certain position.


decade counter

(electronics) A counter that counts in decimal digits, rather than in binary.


dekatron

(electronics) A gas-filled tube used as a decade counter in early computers and calculators.

dekatroi

the gas-filled tube used as a decade counter


magic smoke

(humorous) The strong caustic smoke produced by overloading electronic circuits or components.


caller ID

caller ID (countable and uncountable, plural caller IDs)

I've been trying out some of the new watches that display caller IDs, text messages, Twitter and news feeds, and the weather, too.

2012 May 19, Anne Eisenberg, “It’s Not Dick Tracy’s, but It Can Screen Your Messages”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-05-20:

(countable) The telephone number and/or name of the originator of an incoming telephone call, displayed on the screen of the telephone or other electronic device receiving the call.


TRUE

(electronics) one of two states of a Boolean variable; logic 1.


FALSE

(electronics) one of two states of a Boolean variable; logic 0.


equivalence gate

equivalence gate (plural equivalence gates)

(electronics) a logic gate performing a Boolean logic equivalence operation; an XNOR gate.


OR gate

(electronics) a logic gate performing a Boolean logic OR operation


NOT gate

(electronics) a logic gate performing a Boolean-logic NOT operation


AND gate

(electronics) a logic gate performing a Boolean logic AND operation


XNOR gate

(electronics) a logic gate performing a Boolean logic XNOR operation; an equivalence gate


XOR gate

(electronics) a logic gate performing a Boolean logic XOR operation


difference gate

difference gate (plural difference gates)

(electronics) a logic gate whose output is TRUE when the two inputs are different; a Boolean logic XOR gate.


NAND gate

(electronics) A logic gate performing a Boolean logic NAND operation.


NOR gate

(electronics) a logic gate performing a Boolean logic NOR operation


pass transistor

pass transistor (plural pass transistors)

(electronics) A transistor used as a switch to pass logic levels between nodes of a circuit, instead of as a switch connected directly to a supply voltage.


gater

Optimizing the selection of clock gaters based on activity is known as power-driven clock gating.

2012, Rakesh Chadha, J. Bhasker, An ASIC Low Power Primer: Analysis, Techniques and Specification, page 118:

With more clock buffers instead of gaters in the clock distribution, the power is significantly reduced based on Table 4-4.

Patrick Lee, Introduction to Low-Power Design in VLSIs (page 125)

A mechanism that saves power in a circuit by removing the clock signal while the circuit is not in use.


smearer

(electronics) A circuit used to eliminate the overshoot of a pulse.


EDD

(electronics) Acronym of electronic device description.


plain old telephone service

plain old telephone service (uncountable)

Reinterpretation of the long-standing acronym POTS, originally standing for post office telephone system.

A traditional telephony system based on analog transmission of sound, as opposed to newer alternatives like ISDN or VoIP.


selfie stick

For example, photography shop Artworkfoto in Funan DigitaLife Mall sells about five selfie sticks every day.

2014 March 30, Benson Ang, “Selfie sticks are hot”, in The Sunday Times, Singapore, page L4:

We snapped another selfie (one of the guys, Royston out of our newly acquired Singapore Zopim office, introduced the Exchange to the selfie stick, and that photo is now legendary.)

2014, Mikkel Svane, Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business, John Wiley & Sons (2014), pages 176-177, published 8 December

The needs of selfie takers feed into new product development such as a selfie stick that allows the ul-jang angle, a mirrorless DSLR camera with a 180-degree tilting LCD window, a motion-detecting shutter, and a camera with wireless internet for transferring images.

2015 January, Yoo Jin Kwon, Kyoung-Nan Kwon, “Consuming the Objectified Self: The Quest for Authentic Self”, in Asian Social Science, page 310:

(mobile telephony) An extendable monopod arm onto which a smartphone or camera can be mounted in order to take wide-angle photographs of oneself.


MCZM

(semiconductors) Initialism of multicomponent zone-melting.


jellybean part

(electronics) A commonly available electronic component that may be readily replaced with similar ones, often made by different manufacturers.


TWT

travelling-wave tube
travelling-wave tube#English

(electronics) Initialism of travelling-wave tube.


switchmode

(electronics) Being or relating to a power supply that incorporates a switching regulator to convert electrical power efficiently.


nondopant

(electronics) That which is not a dopant.


howlround

(electronics) A high-pitched squeal produced by feedback when a microphone is too close to its connected speakers.


mobile device

An item of hand-held electronic equipment, especially a smartphone or tablet computer.


screen protector

screen protector (plural screen protectors)

An additional sheet of material, commonly polyurethane or glass, that can be attached to the screen of an electronic device to protect it against physical damage.


AMLCD

(electronics) active matrix liquid crystal display (LCD)


PLED

light-emitting diode
light-emitting diode#English

(electronics, polymers) Initialism of polymer light-emitting diode.


TTFT

(electronics) Initialism of transparent thin-film transistor (TFT).


EPD

(electronics) Initialism of electrophoretic display.


AMEPD

(electronics) Initialism of active matrix electrophoretic display (EPD).


autopolarity

/ˈɔ toʊˈpoʊˈlæɹ ɪ ti/

(electronics) Automatic interchanging of connections to a digital meter when polarity is wrong; a minus sign appears ahead of the value on the digital display if the reading is negative.


autopolar

en-adj

autopolar (comparative more autopolar, superlative most autopolar)

more autopolar (comparative)
most autopolar (superlative)

/ˈɔ toʊˈpoʊ læɹ/

(electronics) Relating to or having autopolarity.


(mobile telephony) Abbreviation of 4th generation, a cellular phone communication standard.


iOS

From i- + OS. Many Apple products have an i- prefix in their names.

(computing, mobile telephony) A mobile operating system (OS) created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware.


ghost call

(telephony) A telephone call for which, when the recipient of the call answers, there is no one on the other end.


contact number

A telephone number that someone can be contacted on.


white plague

white+plague
* (tuberculosis): From the white pallor of victims of the disease
* (eletronics): From the colour of the deposits which cause electrical problems to plague devices

(chemistry, electronics) The white gold-aluminium intermetallic compound Au₅Al₂, which can be formed when gold and aluminium are heated in direct contact (for instance, at an electrical junction between gold and aluminium components).

(electronics) The problems caused by the formation of this compound, including an increase in electrical resistance and formation of voids at the gold-aluminium junction, potentially culminating in total failure of the junction.


oscillography

Measurement by means of an oscillograph.


radiotelegram

wireless telegraphy
wireless telegraphy#English

(telegraphy, historical) A message, like a telegram, transmitted by wireless telegraphy (“telegraphy by radio rather than by transmission cables”).


diplex

Diplex and contraplex are the two varieties of duplex.

(telegraphy) Involving the transmission of two messages in the same direction at the same time.


anticoherer

(historical, telegraphy) A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this device increase its resistance several times.


RX

(electronics, telecommunications) Abbreviation of receive.


RX

en-noun

RX (countable and uncountable, plural RXs)

(electronics, telecommunications) Abbreviation of receiver.


(slang, electronics, obsolete) Initialism of Pentium 5. a slang term used to refer to the successor to the Pentium 4 before the name was revealed by Intel.


cell yell

Many people raise their voices when using their cell phones because the small devices offer little aural feedback. “Cell yell” results, much to the annoyance of anyone nearby.

2010, Mary Ellen Guffey, Essentials of Business Communication, South-Western Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 316:

And I'll have a headache in a few minutes because Mickey, who has a big mouth to begin with, always breaks out in a bad case of cell yell when he's on a phone.

2011, Daniel Marion Culpepper, Straight Man Gay, Sherrie Yvonne Johnson, →ISBN:

To be heard and understood when using a cell phone, please speak clearly and slowly, and no “cell yell.”

2014, Lyn Pont, Hospitality Management: People Skills and Manners On and Off the Job, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 61:

(informal) The act of speaking loudly or yelling into a cell phone/mobile.


mailgram

Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores, Inc. has been the target of a national mailgram campaign since March 13. Complaints have been received from major investors, and demonstrations have been held at several restaurants.

1991 May 4, Jacob Smith Yang, “Cracking Down On Cracker Barrel”, in Gay Community News, page 2:

(telegraphy) A telegraphic message transmitted electronically from the sender to a post office and then printed and delivered to the recipient via physical post.


photomasking

This is the first of five photomasking steps in the process.

1974, IEEE Intercon Technical Program Papers:

Practical examples of failures caused by photomasking, metallurgical reactions and electrical testing are discussed and illustrated.

1977, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, ATFA-77, advanced techniques in failure analysis, page 99:

The patterning process is named photomasking, photolithography, or microlithography.

2011, Handbook for Critical Cleaning, →ISBN, page 360:

(semiconductors) The process of applying a photomask


DAS

DAS (countable and uncountable, plural DASs)

(data, electronics) Acronym of data acquisition system.


Weyl fermion

After Hermann Weyl, the person who proposed this fermion.

(electronics, quantum mechanics) A massless quasiparticle and fermion, which carries electric charge, and cannot move backwards, that may exist in Weyl semimetals, where an electron can be split into two Weyl fermions which move in opposite directions, which can form an electron by combining two Weyl fermions.


routiner

In preparing for the test, it is only necessary to connect the routiner to a test distributor by operating a key.

Two interface lines are needed for the diagnostic routiner to communicate with the CU.

1972, Computer Design: The Design and Application of Digital Circuits, Equipment & Systems:

We usually let the routiner run overnight, when the exchange switches were lightly used, and thus mostly free for testing.

2006, B. Jack Copeland, Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers, OUP Oxford, →ISBN:

A device used to automatically activate and cycle the settings of electronic equipment for testing purposes.


MCU

(electronics) Initialism of microcontroller unit.


off time

off time (countable and uncountable, plural off times)

Usually, a clock waveform used in a system is a square wave. Occasionally, rectangular waveform may also be used. The time period T is the sum of the on time and off time.

2007, Seetharaman Ramachandran, Digital VLSI Systems Design, →ISBN, page 73:

When the off time was 0 s, namely, the illumination is continuous, a black film was deposited.

2004, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics: Letters - Volume 43, page 197:

(electronics) The time interval when no current flows.


lineman splice

(telecommunications, electronics) A method of tightly joining two ends of metal wire by twisting each around the other.


Western Union splice

Western Union splice (plural Western Union splices)

In reference to the communication company Western Union.

(electronics, telecommunications) A method of tightly joining two ends of metal wire by twisting each around the other.


hamburger menu

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface, mobile telephony) A dropdown menu whose presence is indicated by a hamburger icon (i.e. the triple bar ≡).


hamburger button

hamburger button (plural hamburger buttons)

(graphical user interface, mobile telephony) A button displaying the hamburger icon (three parallel horizontal lines: ≡), used to activate a dropdown menu.


hamburger icon

The three lines suggest a stylised hamburger, i.e. a layer of meat between two layers of bread.

(graphical user interface, mobile telephony) A symbol consisting of three parallel horizontal lines (i.e. the triple bar ≡), used to indicate a dropdown menu.


HAT

(electronics) Initialism of hardware attached on top: a kind of expansion board for the Raspberry Pi computer


OSTC

(company, electronics) Initialism of Onscreen Trading and Trading Connections.


video recorder

NHTSA should also require that all buses and trucks over 10,000 pounds be equipped with onboard video recorders that record parametric data associated with an event.

2024, NTSB, NTSB Finds Multiple Safety Lapses in 2022 Fatal Collision Between Truck and Party Bus:

An electronic device for recording video signals, for example onto magnetic tape or videodisks.


pocket dial

But consider this first: How do you know that he really meant to call you and this wasn't just an accidental pocket dial?

2013, Jess McCann, Was It Something I Said?: The Answer To All Your Dating Dilemmas, Skirt!, →ISBN, pages 7–8:

It started off sounding like a pocket dial with incoherent noise and shouting […]

2013, Elle Fowler, Blair Fowler, Where Beauty Lies, St. Martin's Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page 60:

My phone started ringing. I reached over and grabbed it, surprised to see Dewayne's name on the screen. Why would he be calling me at midnight on a Saturday?
"Hello?" I said, almost expecting this to be a pocket dial.

2015, Abbi Glines, Hold On Tight, Simon Pulse, →ISBN, pages 95–96:

(idiomatic, informal) A situation in which one's cellphone makes a call from one's pocket when its buttons are inadvertently pressed.


pocket dial

en-verb

pocket dial (third-person singular simple present pocket dials, present participle (US) pocket dialing or (Commonwealth) pocket dialling, simple past and past participle (US) pocket dialed or (Commonwealth) pocket dialled)

pocket dials (present singular third-person)
pocket dialing (US participle present)
pocket dialling (Commonwealth participle present)
pocket dialed (US participle past)
pocket dialed (US past)
pocket dialled (Commonwealth participle past)
pocket dialled (Commonwealth past)

I answered and quickly realized that the person had “pocket dialed” me— his phone had called mine unintentionally.

2012, Dudley Rutherford, God Has an App for That: Discover God's Solutions for the Major Issues of Life, Gospel Light, published 2012, →ISBN, page 115:

I laugh despite myself, wiping my face with my sleeve. "Dan, you called me."
"Oh, Bird! Is that you?" he says, laughing. "I must have pocket dialed you."

2015, Alecia Whitaker, The Road to You, Poppy, published 2015, →ISBN:

The navigational information his smartphone provided was not always accurate, and at times he would accidentally 'pocket dial' participants at inappropriate hours.

2015, Helen Kara, Creative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: A Practical Guide, Policy Press, published 2015, →ISBN, page 32:

(idiomatic, informal) To accidentally make a call this way.


power-hungry

en-adj

power-hungry (comparative more power-hungry, superlative most power-hungry)

more power-hungry (comparative)
most power-hungry (superlative)

The latest model is also the most power-hungry in the lineup.

Could we eventually see Class 800/802 trains exchanging their diesel engines for Fast Charge battery technology and 'opportunity charging', at each station stop on their long journey west? We're a long way from that being a possibility for heavy, power-hungry inter-city trains, but the Greenford line trial will provide GWR with the experience and data it needs to start the process of making diesel history.

2023 August 23, Ben Jones, “A Fast Charge to DMUs' demise?”, in RAIL, number 990, page 33:

(electronics) Of a device, using or requiring a large amount of electrical power.

energieverslindend

using or requiring a lot of electrical power


crossbar switch

en-noun

crossbar switch (plural crossbar switches)

(electronics) A matrix of switches with multiple input and output lines that form a crossed pattern between which a connection may be established by closing a switch located at each intersection.


Googlephone

Russian: гуглофо́н (guglofón)

It will be at least a year or two before Android-based smartphones (Googlephones?) reach any real-world consumers, but when they do, Google will probably offer serious competition to Microsoft, Symbian, and the others.

2008, John Ross, The Book of Wireless, page 258:

Will MySpace do a deal with Google to put social networking and music inside the new GooglePhone?

2008, Matthew Fraser, Soumitra Dutta, Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom, page 243:

Among them are the emergence of 3D browsing and the merging of virtual worlds with reality; the use of smartphones and Googlephones; standardized web connectivity in new televisions with 3D technology; spread of e-readers; […]

2011, Charles Wankel, Educating Educators with Social Media, page 91:

(informal) Any mobile phone that runs the Android operating system.


Al Capone

Rhyming slang from the name of American gangster Al Capone.


gimmick capacitor

gimmick capacitor (plural gimmick capacitors)

(electronics) A capacitor consisting of two insulated wires twined together.


demon dialing

From the Demon Dialer product from Zoom Telephonics, Inc., a telephone device produced in the 1980s which repeatedly dialed busy telephone numbers under control of an extension phone.

(telephony) The use of a computer to dial a number repeatedly (usually to a crowded modem pool) in an attempt to gain access immediately after another user has hung up.


picture tube

The conventional TV picture tube, whose monstrous bubble of vacuum is responsible for most of the bulk of the TV cabinet, may be on its way out. Electronics men have long dreamed of shrinking the tube to a flat plate not much bigger than the picture.

1955 May 7, “Science: Slimmer TV”, in Time, retrieved 2015-11-12:

The bulky, squarish, heavy picture tube, the standard television technology for more than 60 years, is heading for the dustbin of history much faster than anyone expected.

2006 May 7, Eric A. Taub, “Picture Tubes Are Fading Into the Past”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-11-12:

(electronics, becoming dated) In a television set, before the development of LED screens, the cathode ray tube which produced moving images on its surface.


holla at

en-verb

holla at (third-person singular simple present hollas at, present participle hollaing at, simple past and past participle hollaed at or holla'd at)

hollas at (present singular third-person)
hollaing at (participle present)
hollaed at (participle past)
hollaed at (past)
holla'd at (participle past)
holla'd at (past)

(African-American Vernacular, transitive) To call on a telephone; to contact or maintain contact with.


photomultiplier tube

en-noun

photomultiplier tube (plural photomultiplier tubes)

(electronics) A type of vacuum tube that detects electromagnetic radiation in the range from ultraviolet to infrared, including the visible spectrum, and them amplifies the detection induced current into an output signal

photodiode

a solid-state device used in a manner similar to the PMT


Rent's rule

Discovered in the 1960s by E. F. Rent, an IBM employee.

(electronics) A rule describing the relationship between the number of external signal connections to a logic block (i.e. the number of "pins") with the number of logic gates in the logic block.


travelling-wave tube

travelling-wave tube (plural travelling-wave tubes)

From the early days of the invention of traveling wave tubes and other devices employing electron beams, there have been efforts to understand the mechanisms and physics of RF signal amplification in those devices.

2020, Alexander Figotin, An Analytic Theory Of Multi-stream Electron Beams In Traveling Wave Tubes, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 40:

(electronics) A type of vacuum tube which amplifies electromagnetic signals, where the electron gun fires down the tube with an unmodulated electron beam, that passes through an interaction array, where the EM-signal is fed, which interacts with the electron beam, bunching the electrons, and transferring power to the signal.


crossatron

From cross- + -tron, from being a cross or hybrid of the other kinds.

(electronics) A high-power pulsed modulator device, a cold cathode gas-filled tube that combines useful features of thyratrons, vacuum tubes, and power semiconductor switches.


other end

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(with "the") The other party in a telephone call.


nuisance call

He was convicted in Monroe County Circuit Court in 1988 of making nuisance calls to Bernett in the early morning. During the calls, traced to his phone, he would either say nothing or curse.

1990 August 15, Maurice D. Wozniak, “Murder-suicide unexplained”, in Milwaukee Journal, retrieved 2015-12-29, page A12:

"You often find the most nuisance calls in crime-ridden areas, because the citizens are in fear. So they'll call the police for ridiculous things."

1996 June 2, Steve Vogel, “Poor areas wait longer for hard-pressed D.C. police”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2015-12-29:

[M]any mobile phone companies have nuisance call hotlines, to which you can report a bully's phone number.

2004 August 11, Catherine Nixey, “Victim support in the playground”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 2015-12-29:

Richard Lloyd adds: “People are sick of being bombarded with nuisance calls that invade their privacy and waste their time.”

2015 June 9, Tom Parry, “Survivors' guide to cold call plague: How to deal with unwanted nuisance calls and texts”, in Mirror, UK, retrieved 2015-12-29:

An unsolicited, annoying telephone call, such as one originating from a telemarketer, robocaller, or prankster or one that is obscene or harassing.


(mobile telephony) Abbreviation of 5th generation, a mobile network communication standard.


superregenerative

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(electronics) Being a form of regenerative radio receiver that uses a second lower-frequency oscillation to provide single-device circuit gains


triac

Short for triode for alternating current.

(electronics) A three-terminal electronic component that conducts current in either direction when triggered; a bidirectional triode thyristor.


chicken bit

From chicken, in the sense of chicken out.

As an example, modules such as branch predictors and speculative execution units can be turned off with a variant of the “chicken bits”, control bits common to many design developments to control the activation of specific features.

2010, Ilya Wagner, Valeria Bertacco, Post-Silicon and Runtime Verification for Modern Processors, →ISBN, page 165:

Validation of a chicken bit can be challenging, because disabling a feature is often as intrusive in the code as the feature itself.

2015, Erik Seligman, Tom Schubert, M V Achutha, Kiran Kumar, Formal Verification, →ISBN, page 237:

As a matter of fact, most of these chicken bits will never be documented, and a small portion of the chicken bits will be documented only when they are needed to work around a chip problem.

2015, Vincent Zimmer, Jiming Sun, Marc Jones, Embedded Firmware Solutions: Development Best Practices, →ISBN, page 6:

(electronics) A bit on a chip that can be used to disable one of the features of the chip if it proves faulty or negatively impacts performance.


S.M.A.R.T.

w:self-monitoring, analysis and reporting technology

(computer hardware) Acronym of self-monitoring, analysis and reporting technology; also SMART: a monitoring system included in computer HDDs and SSDs in order to detect and report various indicators of drive reliability with the intent of anticipating imminent hardware failures.


trackerphone

A small hand-held positioning device whose main functionality is tracking people or things, and which also allows hands-free voice calling.


Baudot code

An early character encoding used in telegraphy, representing each letter in the alphabet by five bits (binary digits).


bitline

random access memory
random access memory

(electronics) An array of columns of memory cells in random access memory, used with the wordline to generate the address of each cell.


wordline

(electronics) An array of rows of memory cells in random access memory, used with the bitline to generate the address of each cell.


N-V

nitrogen vacancy
nitrogen vacancy#English

(electronics) Abbreviation of nitrogen vacancy.


nanocarpet

In this paper, a plasmonic absorber consisting of a metal-dielectric-metal stack with a top layer of Sierpinski nanocarpet is theoretically investigated.

2016, Ali Eshaghian, Sajjad AbdollahRamezani, Ata Chizari, Khashayar Mehrany, “Broadband, Polarization-insensitive and Wide-angle Optical Absorber based on Fractal Plasmonics”, in arXiv:

(nanotechnology) A carpet of carbon nanotubes used to enhance the flow of heat at a critical point where computer chips connect to heat sinks.


powerbank

A portable device used to charge mobile phones and tablet computers.


SLC

single-level cell
single-level cell#English

(countable, electronics) Initialism of single-level cell.


DPD

digital pre-distortion
digital pre-distortion#English

(electronics) Initialism of digital pre-distortion.


neurotronic

(science fiction) Combining neural and electronic technologies.


ACD

ACD (countable and uncountable, plural ACDs)

automatic call distributor
automatic call distributor#English

(telephony, call routing, countable) Initialism of automatic call distributor

automated call distribution
automated call distribution#English

(telephony, call routing, uncountable) Initialism of automated call distribution.


MFD

multifuction display
multifuction display#English

(electronics) Initialism of multifuction display.


RTC

(electronics) Initialism of real-time clock.


backgate

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(electronics) A gate that supplies a negative voltage.


telephone girl

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I've just had a row with a telephone girl, a telephone girl, my brain's in a whirl.

1915, W. David, J. Barnett, Hermann Darewski (lyrics and music), “Which Switch is the Switch, Miss, for Ipswich?”:

(telephony, dated) A female telephone operator.


EDGE

Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution
w:Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution

(mobile telephony) Acronym of Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution.


photochop

en-verb

photochop (third-person singular simple present photochops, present participle photochopping, simple past and past participle photochopped)

photochops (present singular third-person)
photochopping (participle present)
photochopped (participle past)
photochopped (past)

This d-c signal is then photochopped in a solid-state oscillation circuit and the resulting a-c signal amplified.

1963, Instrumentation Technology - Volume 10, Issues 1-6, page 15:

Models 2030 and 2031 provided with photochopped voltage pulse and DC voltage signals, respectively.

1990, Narendra S. Goel, John M. Norman, Instrumentation for Studying Vegetation Canopies for Remote Sensing in Optical and Thermal Infrared Regions, →ISBN:

For photochopped anemometers, external power is required to power a light beam that is chopped by a rotating slotted disk.

2012, Gerald Stanhill, Advances in Bioclimatology, →ISBN, page 17:

(electronics, transitive) To convert, by chopping, a DC (or slowly varying AC) input signal into a higher frequency signal.


photochopper

A typical photochopper circuit is made up of two neon bulbs electrically connected in the form of a relaxation oscillator (Fig. 5).

1963, Space/aeronautics - Volume 40, page 98:

... the isolation between the bulb and photochopper must be 170 db.

1966, Richard F. Shea, Amplifier handbook, page 18-66:

Electric pulses with a frequency proportional to the angular velocity of the cups are obtained by means of radial magnets on the rotor axis and fixed transducers or by means of a photochopper.

1998, R. Baudo, Gianni Tartari, M. Munawar, Top of the world environmental research:

(electronics) An optoelectronic device that converts a DC input signal into a higher frequency signal.


floating ground

en-noun

floating ground (plural floating grounds)

(electronics) A reference point for electric potential in a circuit which is not connected to the actual earth ground.


(mobile telephony, retronym) Referring to standards before 2.75G.


voice over IP

Subject: Voice over IP and/or OSI? Message: Am looking for information on software/hardware to allow voice transmission over IP and/or OSI stacks. Please post or mail direct. Thanks in advance.

1992 April 10, Steve Johnson, “Voice over IP and/or OSI?”, in comp.sys.sun.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2016-11-01, message-ID <534@trwacs.fp.trw.com>:

Is there an application that will let use broadcast audio and let individual machines 'tune in' on the connection?? Will we get decent bandwidth (i.e. sample rates at 32 or 48 kHz) or the crappy bandwidth like 8.192 kHz used for voice over IP (i.e. NeVOT) ??

1993 September 26, Jim Doyle, “Listening to CDs over the LAN ??”, in comp.sys.sgi.apps (Usenet), retrieved 2016-11-01, message-ID <284o3jINNmc2@ymir.cs.umass.edu>:

A router, by definition, cannot carry isochronous traffic such as voice. Some hard-core Internet fanatics, who detest telephone companies for a living (something about being chased away from the pay phone they were phreaking as a kid), will try to run voice over IP. It is like teaching a pig to sing: It won't sound good, and it annoys the pig.

1993 October 9, Fred R. Goldstein, “Re: How Will Routers Compete Against Digital Switches?”, in comp.dcom.telecom (Usenet), retrieved 2016-11-01, message-ID <telecom13.690.10@eecs.nwu.edu>:

(Internet, telephony) Voice over Internet Protocol (also "VoIP"), a telecommunications system that uses the Internet or other Internet Protocol network to transmit telephone calls.


LiPo

(electrochemistry, electronics) A lithium polymer battery Abbreviation of lithium polymer.


Li-ion

lithium ion battery
lithium ion battery#English

(electronics) Abbreviation of lithium ion battery.


SBC

(electronics) Initialism of system basis chip.


FUP

(mobile telephony) Initialism of fair usage policy.


lithium-ion battery

lithium-ion battery (plural lithium-ion batteries)

The new trams will join an existing 21-strong Urbos tram fleet in Birmingham. The latter were delivered in 2012, and last year were fitted with Greentech on-board energy storage using lithium-ion batteries to enable catenary-free running. The new trams will have similar equipment.

(electrochemistry, electronics) A form of rechargeable battery containing lithium compounds, but not elemental lithium, used in many consumer electronics devices.


candlestick telephone

candlestick telephone (plural candlestick telephones)

(telephony) An early style of telephone with a mouthpiece (transmitter) mounted at the top of its stand, and a receiver that was held by the user to the ear during a call. When not in use, the receiver rested in the fork of the switch hook protruding to the side of the stand, thereby disconnecting the audio circuit from the network.


AC adapter

(electronics) An adapter for alternating current.


exit code

(telephony) A sequence of digits that must be dialled before the target number when placing an international call from a given country.


ring through

en-verb

ring through (third-person singular simple present rings through, present participle ringing through, simple past rang through, past participle rung through)

rings through (present singular third-person)
ringing through (participle present)
rang through (past)
rung through (participle past)

(British English) to make a telephone call to someone, especially from the same building.


discman

A portable personal compact disc player with headphones.


B battery

(dated, electronics) A battery used to provide the plate voltage for a vacuum tube.


Tx

Alternative form: tx

(uncountable, electronics, telecommunications) Abbreviation of transmission.


synchronverter

This paper sketches the ideas of a viable alternative for traditional remedial controls for power grids with high penetration of renewables, in which the renewables are integrated with synchronverters to mimic the dynamics of conventional generators.

2015, Thanh Long Vu, Spyros Chatzivasileiadis, Konstantin Turitsyn, “Towards Electronics-based Emergency Control in Power Grids with High Renewable Penetration”, in arXiv:


hog-Morse

From the similarity in American Morse code between the codes for "home" and "hog" which differ only in the symbol spacing.

(archaic) Error-ridden Morse code transmitted by an inexperienced or inept operator.


soft error

(electronics, computing) A type of transient error where a signal or datum is momentarily wrong, caused for example by an ionizing particle striking a chip.


3D IC

integrated circuit
integrated circuit#English

(electronics) Initialism of three-dimensional integrated circuit.


ACW

(mathematics, electronics) Abbreviation of anticlockwise.


power cord

(electronics) A cable that connects an electrical appliance to a socket.


CCN

(electronics) Initialism of controlled-controlled not gate.


GTL

en-noun

GTL (countable and uncountable, plural GTLs)

Gunning transceiver logic
Gunning transceiver logic#English

(electronics) Initialism of Gunning transceiver logic.


Wilson Doctrine

After Harold Wilson, British politician who established the rule.

The convention in the United Kingdom that restricts the police and intelligence services from tapping the telephones of Members of the House of Commons and House of Lords.


flag semaphore

A form of telegraphy, using hand-held flags or similar, typically used at sea


capture card

(computer hardware) A circuit board allowing a computer to record video from an external source.


brown box

(telephony) A device used in phreaking that allows the creation of a party line from two telephone lines.

gray-box testing
white box (software engineering)


beige box

Beige box (phreaking)
gray-box testing
white box (software engineering)

(telephony, hacking) A device used in phreaking, technically equivalent to a telephone company lineman's handset: a telephone fitted with alligator clips to attach it to a line.


green box

A device used in phreaking to produce various tones (coin collect, coin return, and ringback) that allow illicit control of a payphone.


breakout board

(electronics) A minimal PCB with a single component, used for easier prototyping.


bed of nails

(electronics) A device for testing a chip, consisting of an array of spring-loaded pins.


(electronics) 2170 (electrochemical battery of a secondary storage cell)


(electronics) 18650 (electrochemical battery of a secondary storage cell)


post-transistor

during the genesis of solid-state electronics and the post-transistor era of integrated circuits for telecommunications, computers, and digital signal machines

the International Business Machines 360 series, which emerged in the late nineteen‐sixties as a major post-transistor family of general purpose computers.

(context, electronics) belonging to the time (late 1960s) after individual transistors were replaced by integrated circuits


(Canada, US, telephony) Alternative form of 411


fuzzy controller

fuzzy controller (plural fuzzy controllers)

(computing, electronics) A controller that uses a fuzzy logic ruleset.


en:2006 transatlantic aircraft plot security reaction

(Canada, US, telephony) Alternative form of 311


point-to-point

From point (“individual element in a larger whole; specific location or place; topic of discussion or debate”) + to + point.

printed circuit board
printed circuit board

Travelling directly from a starting point to an ending point, or from one point to another in a series of points without passing through any intermediate points.

(electronics) Being or relating to a method of manually constructing electronic circuits prior to automation and printed circuit boards, where components were individually mounted on the chassis prior to soldering.

punt-naar-punt

being or relating to a method of manually constructing electronic circuits where components were individually mounted on the chassis prior to soldering


D-sub

Clipping of D-subminiature, from the Cannon part numbering system where such connectors’ designations are prefixed with D.

Some serial ports use a 25-contact D-sub, but with few exceptions, a 25-pin serial D-sub on a PC is male, with the female connector on the cable—the reverse of the parallel-port convention. (Other serial ports use 9-pin D-subs instead.)

1996, Jan Axelson, Parallel Port Complete: Programming, Interfacing & Using the PC’s Parallel Printer Port:

(electronics) an electrical connector with two or more rows of pins or sockets surrounded by a D-shaped metal shield


reballing

BGA reballing requires that the stencil match the ball size, inter-ball distance (pitch) and ball configuration of the chip.

2005 November 15, Mark Pollitt, Sujeet Shenoi, “5.2 Reballing”, in Advances in Digital Forensics: IFIP International Conference on Digital Forensics, National Center for Forensic Science, Orlando, Florida, February 13-16, 2005 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology), Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 195:

(electronics) The process of reapplying the balls (protruding contacts) on a ball grid array.


(US, obsolete) Reading of fictional phone numbers that begin with 555 with “KL” being “5” on a dial pad.


on the telephone

Talking to someone using a telephone; Synonym of on the phone


HIL

(electronics, embedded systems) Initialism of Hardware-In-the-Loop.


polygrammatic

(historical) Of a telegraph system: capable of displaying several symbols at the same time.


ICNIRP

(electronics) Initialism of International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection.


telegraph office

telegraph office (plural telegraph offices)

An office or institution providing telegraphic services, a place from which one could send a telegram (a historical kind of electronic message).


latch-up

(electronics) A kind of short circuit caused by the inadvertent creation of a low-impedance path between the power supply rails of a MOSFET circuit.


psophometer

An instrument used in telecommunications to measure the noise of a telephone circuit.


unlooper

(electronics) A device used to break a smart card's microcontroller out of an infinite loop state that makes it otherwise unusable.


wiring harness

wiring harness (plural wiring harnesses)

Remove and discard cable straps (45) securing front wiring harness (11) to main wiring harness (10) and to fuel cutoff control.

1974, Department of the Army, Direct Support and General Support Maintenance Manual for Carrier, Guided Missile Equipment, Self-propelled, page 4-24:

Today, an automobile assembled in the United States could have a Japanese-built engine, a French transmission, a wiring-harness assembly from Mexico, electrical parts from Brazil, and a radio from Taiwan.

1985, International Trade Commission, The Internationalization of the Automobile Industry and Its Effects on the U.S. Automobile Industry, page vii:

(automotive, electronics) A bundle of insulated wires, often held together with straps or other connectors, that transmit signals or electrical current within a vehicle, electronic device, etc., or between them.


FICT

FICT (countable and uncountable, plural FICTs)

(countable, electronics) Initialism of Fixtureless In-Circuit Test.


in-circuit

an in-circuit test

(electronics) Existing or performed within a circuit.


minigrid

(electronics) A component consisting of conductive horizontal and vertical filaments woven together.


Schmitt trigger

Schmitt trigger (plural Schmitt triggers)

Invented by American scientist Otto H. Schmitt in 1934.

(electronics) A comparator circuit with hysteresis implemented by applying positive feedback to the non-inverting input of a comparator or differential amplifier. It converts an analog signal to a digital one.


PSSD

(electronics) Initialism of portable SSD.


tin can telephone

tin can telephone (plural tin can telephones)

A pseudo-telephone constructed from two tin cans (or paper cups, etc.) attached at the ends with string.


TPU

TPU (countable and uncountable, plural TPUs)

The GPU and TPU computing resources were used to investigate the influence of hardware-supported quantization on performance of the DNNs.

2019, “Scaling Analysis of Specialized Tensor Processing Architectures for Deep Learning Models”, in Witold Pedrycz, Shyi-Ming Chen, editors, Deep Learning: Concepts and Architectures, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 73:

Tensor Processing Unit
w:Tensor Processing Unit

(countable, computer hardware) Initialism of Tensor Processing Unit, a circuit optimized for neural network machine learning.


ODR

(electronics) Initialism of octal data rate.


EIDE

(electronics) Initialism of Extended Integrated Drive Electronics.


phase angle

(electronics) Angular component of the vector representation of a sinusoid.


memory cartridge

memory cartridge (plural memory cartridges)

An electronic flash memory data storage device commonly used in portable electronic devices.


deassert

en-verb

deassert (third-person singular simple present deasserts, present participle deasserting, simple past and past participle deasserted)

deasserts (present singular third-person)
deasserting (participle present)
deasserted (participle past)
deasserted (past)

The controller deasserts this line to allow the talker to place status or data on the data bus.

1985, Vinod Kumar Bansal, Design of Microprocessor Based Systems, Wiley Eastern Limited, →OCLC, page 131:

It therefore inserts a wait state into the third data phase by deasserting IRDY# at the start of clock cycle four.

1999, Don Anderson, PCI System Architecture, Addison-Wesley Professional, →OCLC, page 139:

The third requirement is to deassert the outputs to their inactive state in response to the input conditions being satisfied.

2017, Randal Fulton, Airborne Electronic Hardware Design Assurance: A Practitioner's Guide to RTCA/DO-254, CRC Press:

(electronics) To remove a signal on a line.


line card

(electronics, telecommunications) A modular electronic circuit designed to fit on a separate PCB and interface with a telecommunications access network.


collect call

Hello, operator — I'd like to make a collect call.

(Canada, US) A phone call paid for by the receiver (callee), as opposed to the caller.


CLV

en-noun

CLV (countable and uncountable, plural CLVs)

(electronics) Initialism of constant linear velocity, a qualifier for the rated speed of an optical drive.


power electronics

(electronics) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see power, electronics. Electronics for controlling electric power and energy.


hydro pole

From hydroelectric, because utility poles in Canada commonly belong to hydroelectric companies.


COCOT

(telecommunications) Initialism of Customer-Owned Coin-Operated Telephone.


overpulse

The algorithm then requires that you multiply the interval by 3 to yield a single overpulse.

1985, EDN, Electrical Design News - Volume 30, page 165:

In an electromagnetic launcher such as a railgun for propelling a projectile at high velocity, an overpulse energy recovery circuit is employed to transfer stored inductive energy from a source inductor to the railgun inductance to propel the projectile down the railgun.

1986, Catalog of Government Patents, page 75:

For example, Intel's earlier Intelligent programming algorithm, which is still required for cerdip parts, uses a one millisecond pulse and an overpulse scheme.

1987, Electronic Packaging and Production:

(electronics) An electric pulse that spikes above normal operating levels.


cold cathode

On the open portions of the platforms the loudspeakers are installed on the cold cathode lighting columns.

1962 June, “The Eastern Region completes the Colchester scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 412:

(electronics) A type of cathode that does not use a heating element to produce emission of cathode rays (electrons), beyond base thermionic emission (usually by field electron emission, secondary emission, photoelectric emission)


deassertion

deassertion (countable and uncountable, plural deassertions)


VDR

Coordinate term: CDR

voltage divider rule
voltage divider rule#English

voltage division rule
voltage division rule#English

(electronics) Initialism of voltage divider rule or voltage division rule.


voltage divider

voltage divider (plural voltage dividers)

Coordinate term: current divider

(electronics) A type of simple electronic circuit which reduces any input voltage by a fixed factor using sources of impedance (such as resistors) connected in series.

Spannungsteiler

circuit that reduces input voltage using sources of impedance


subswitch

(electronics) A simpler switch that is a component of a more complex switch, used in telephone exchanges or data routing.


subchanneled

(radio, electronics, zoology) Divided into subchannels.


payment terminal

payment terminal (plural payment terminals)

(computer hardware) An electronic device which interfaces with payment cards to make electronic funds transfers.


pin header

(electronics) A type of electrical connector, consisting of one or more rows of male pins evenly spaced apart.


TCON

(electronics) display timing controller circuit (ASIC or FPGA)


breadboardable

en-adj

breadboardable (comparative more breadboardable, superlative most breadboardable)

more breadboardable (comparative)
most breadboardable (superlative)

(electronics, of an electronic board or component) That can be installed on a breadboard.


ball grid array

en-noun

ball grid array (plural ball grid arrays)

(electronics) A type of surface mount used to connect integrated circuits to printed circuit boards.


DNI

(electronics) Initialism of do not install.


feedpoint

(electronics) The location on an antenna where radio frequency electrical power is applied.


multi-box

The practice of playing an online game with multiple accounts simultaneously.

The existing standard VCS units are multi-boxes, usually 6 in deep, which fit into a 6 in x 6 in grid on the front panel, and the new units had to be compatible.

1980, Ship & Boat International - Volume 33, page 35:

If you really want to win points with the electronic media, supply a multi- box— an electrical box that contains multiple outlets into which TV and radio reporters can directly plug their microphone cords without attaching a microphone.

1984, The Detroiter - Volume 6, Issues 1-6:

I Provide equipment for multi-plugging into the amplifications system (a “multi-box”) and check to be sure power and fuses are adequate.

1989, Sharon K. Amatetti, Prevention Plus II, page 483:

An electronic device with multiple sites where components can be plugged in.

In the case of the use of multi-boxes experience has shown. that the system engenders gross malpractices and rigging.

1985, Francis Aloysius Wazarwahi Bwengye, The agony of Uganda: from Idi Amin to Obote, page 15:

Mr. Chairman, the Commission took a soft and a weak stand, they kept saying 'we cannot amend the law' because they were talking about one ballot box and the law talks about multi-boxes, they were talking about counting the votes on the spot, and law talks about collecting boxes from the polling stations and putting them in a central place overnight.

1995, Uganda. Commission of Inquiry into Violations of Human Rights, Report of the Commission of Inquiry Into Violations of Human Rights:

Since each of the several boxes in the multi-box system held tickets of only one type, it was not possible to determine how voters who voted for one candidate, say, for Congress, voted for other offices.

2004, Richard Franklin Bensel, The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, page 40:

One of a set of multiple ballot boxes, one for each candidate.


brick-wall limiter

brick-wall limiter (plural brick-wall limiters)

(electronics) A limiter circuit that completely cuts off signals above a specified threshold, rather than merely attenuating the peaks.


gender mender

(electronics) Synonym of gender changer (“electronic coupling device”)


vactrol

From a trademark introduced by Vactec, Inc. in the 1960s.

(electronics) A resistive opto-isolator.


prescaler

(electronics) A counting circuit used to reduce a high-frequency electrical signal to a lower frequency by integer division.


calligraphic projection

(electronics, computer graphics) A system for displaying or projecting an image composed of a beam of light or electrons directly tracing the image, as opposed to sweeping in raster order over the entire display surface.


QLC

(countable, electronics) Initialism of quad-level cell.


keybounce

Many of you have experienced what we call “Keybounce” — multiple letters from one keystroke.

1978 November, Radio Shack Microcomputer Newsletter:

A typical inexpensive key will settle down within five milliseconds, so if the keyboard scanning software polls the key less often than this, the controller will effectively miss the keybounce.

2004, Randall Hyde, Write Great Code Volume 1: Understanding the Machine, →ISBN, page 348:

(computer hardware, electronics) Multiple recorded keystrokes from a single press of a key on a computer keyboard due to poor electrical contact.


(US, Canada, telephony) The telephone number used for last-call return services.


en-verb

*69 (third-person singular simple present *69s, present participle *69ing, simple past and past participle *69ed)

(Canada, US, telephony, transitive, intransitive) To use the last-call return service


fax number

A number used to contact a particular fax machine.


self-clocking

(telecommunications, electronics) Of a signal: able to be decoded without the need for a separate source of synchronization.


subscriber trunk dialling

This NER microwave radio telephone link will bring subscriber trunk dialling facilities to no fewer than 3,000 railway telephones at York, Newcastle, Darlington, Middlesbrough and Leeds and points as far north as Berwick-upon-Tweed.

1964 August, “The NER's microwave radio-telephone begins work”, in Modern Railways, page 130:

(telephony, British spelling) A system of automatic connection of trunk calls through dialling a phone number without operator assistance.


Molex to SATA, lose all your data

(computer hardware, Internet) Using a Molex-to-SATA adapter to power a storage device may lead to loss of data, as a poorly designed and unreliable connector may cause damage by failing in an unsafe manner.


MIMO

(electronics, telecommunications) Ellipsis of MIMO technology. (multiple-input multiple-output technology)

MIMO-ODFM

MIMO orthogonal frequency division multiplexing


CD drive

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misclock

When misclock occurs, it is recorded as an audio datum and an alarm is given.

1978, Journal of the Radio Research Laboratories:

After each phase crossing there is a chance of a misclock being produced by jitter induced phase reversal at subsequent clocking edges.

2002, The 2002 45th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, page 562:

We will present a model to determine this minimum difference frequency given the acceptable risk of a misclock.

2002, I Shankar, SA Morris, CG Hutchens, “A novel frequency measurement technique for quartz microbalance systems and other resonator-based sensor systems”, in Proceedings: 2nd ISA/IEEE Sensors for Industry Conference:

(electronics) An error in the synchronization or coordination of the sequence or timing of actions by a device.


misclock

misclock (third-person singular simple present misclocks, present participle misclocking, simple past and past participle misclocked)

misclocks (present singular third-person)
misclocking (participle present)
misclocked (participle past)
misclocked (past)

This glitch can misclock the DMA state controller and indirectly mess up the memory unit in use.

1977, Conference Proceedings: Computer Faire, page 288:

We didn't get past the start. It was misclocked opened and we got too much lox flow in the main chamber early.

1995, SSME Post Test Diagnostic System: Systems Section, page 57:

This occurred despite an alignment pin design feature to prevent misclocking. It occurred despite a sensitivity test of the system a few days before liftoff to confirm live activity and correct polarity of all of the rate gyros.

2001, Walter Edward Hammond, Design Methodologies for Space Transportation Systems, page 696:

(electronics) To cause or produce a misclock.


SBH

Schottky barrier height
Schottky barrier height#English

(electronics) Abbreviation of Schottky barrier height.


one-hot

(electronics, computer science) A set of bits with only a single high (1) bit, with the remaining bits low (0).


split-ring

split-ring resonator
split-ring resonator

(electronics) Either of a pair of concentric metallic rings with slits on opposite sides, used in split-ring resonators.


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