aberration

en-noun

aberration (countable and uncountable, plural aberrations)

/ˌæb.əˈɹeɪ.ʃn̩/

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

абера́ция

astronomy: small periodical change of position of heavenly bodies

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


PM

en-noun

PM (countable and uncountable, plural PMs)

permanent magnet
permanent magnet#English

(electronics) Initialism of permanent magnet.


KGB

(electronics) Initialism of known good board.


jiffy

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

unk

unknown

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


decade

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

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

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

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

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

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

dekadi

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


RAM

random-access memory
random access memory#English

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

ՕՀՍ

random access memory — see also random access memory

ΜΤΠ

μνήμη τυχαίας προσπέλασης f (mními tychaías prospélasis)


AMPS

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


CDMA

Code Division Multiple Access
wikipedia:Code division multiple access

(electronics) Initialism of Code Division Multiple Access.


false

en-verb

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

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

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

cog

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


clock

en-noun

clock (countable and uncountable, plural clocks)

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

onomatopoeic

onomatopoeic

сахӏат

instrument to measure or keep track of time

chronometer

instrument used to measure or keep track of time

even a stopped clock is right twice a day

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


penny

en-verb

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

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

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

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


open

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

inh

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

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


router

→ Japanese: ルーター, ルータ

→ Korean: 라우터 (rauteo)

printed circuit board
printed circuit board

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


skew

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

cog

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

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

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

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

(electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.

vääristymä

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


jack

→ Brazilian Portuguese: jegue

→ European Portuguese: jaque

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

náłbiil bijaadbee dahnádidlohí

device for raising and supporting a heavy object

jekker

military: coarse medieval coat of defense

telephone jack

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


or

(logic, electronics) Alternative form of OR


boom

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

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


PI

en-noun

PI (countable and uncountable, plural PIs)

(electronics) Initialism of power integrity.


PE

PE (countable and uncountable, plural PEs)

(electronics) Initialism of protective earthing.


SI

SI (countable and uncountable, plural SIs)

S.I.

statutory instrument, chiefly in citation

(electronics) Initialism of signal integrity.


PR

PR (countable and uncountable, plural PRs)


NC

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


MC

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

Coordinate term: MM

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


TX

en-verb

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

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

(telecommunications, electronics) Abbreviation of transmit.


TX

(telecommunications, electronics) Abbreviation of transmitter.


VA

en-noun

VA (countable and uncountable, plural VAs)

vertical alignment
vertical alignment#English

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


TCO

(electronics) Initialism of transparent conducting oxide.


rail

→ Catalan: rail

→ Dutch: rail

→ French: rail

→ Japanese: レール (rēru)

→ Punjabi: ਰੇਲ (rel)

→ Spanish: raíl

→ Swahili: reli

→ Tibetan: རི་ལི (ri li, “train”)

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

doublet

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

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

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

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


input

en-noun

input (countable and uncountable, plural inputs)

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

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

model with A/V input


race

race (countable and uncountable, plural races)

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

cog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


ROM

en-noun

ROM (countable and uncountable, plural ROMs)

read-only memory
read-only memory#English

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


MDM

MDM (countable and uncountable, plural MDMs)

(electronics) Initialism of multiplexer-demultiplexer.


bridge

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

ацҳа

construction or natural feature that spans a divide

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

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

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


base

en-noun

base (countable and uncountable, plural bases)

acid

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

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

أَسَاس

something from which other things extend

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

ба́за

electronics: controlling terminal of a transistor


solenoid

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

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


random access memory

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

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-random access memory.wav

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

operativ yaddaş qurğusu

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

随机存取存储器

suíjī cúnqǔ cúnchǔqì, suíjī cúnqǔ cúnchúqì


gain

gain (countable and uncountable, plural gains)

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

cog

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

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

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


field

→ Japanese: フィールド (fīrudo)

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

veld

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

fushë

sports: area reserved for playing a game

Euclidean domain ⊂ principal ideal domain ⊂ unique factorization domain

Noetherian domain ⊂ integral domain ⊂ commutative ring

Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.

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


cycle

en-verb

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

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

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

doublet

Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.

(electronics) To turn power off and back on


synthesizer

→ Hebrew: סינתיסייזר (síntesaizer)

سِنْثِسَيْزَر

music: an electronic instrument module without a keyboard

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

penyintesis

electronics: an electronic circuit that generates an electronic signal oscillation

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

penyintesis

electronics: an electronic device that generates electronic signal patterns


programmable read-only memory

en-noun

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

programmable read-only memories (plural)

write once, read many
write once, read many

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


SW

SW (countable and uncountable, plural SWs)


ABC

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


EPROM

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


order

order (countable and uncountable, plural orders)

→ Swahili: oda

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

cog

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

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

řád

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


MF

en-noun

MF (countable and uncountable, plural MFs)

(electronics) Initialism of medium frequency.


GST

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


LCD

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

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

liquid crystal display
liquid crystal display#English

(electronics, computing) Initialism of liquid crystal display.


MM

Coordinate term: MC

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


resistor

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


terminal

→ Bulgarian: термина́л (terminál)

→ Japanese: ターミナル (tāminaru)

→ Korean: 터미널 (teomineol)

desctree

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

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

термина́л

computing - the end of a line of signals

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


PLC

en-noun

PLC (countable and uncountable, plural PLCs)

Audio (US)

programmable logic controller
programmable logic controller#English

(countable, electronics) Initialism of programmable logic controller.

plc

public limited company, programmable logic controller


scalar

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

coin

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


matrix

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

基質

analytical chemistry: sampling environment

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

1949, Proceedings of the Association of American Railroads:

The transistor matrix in the encoder supplies the sequential gates.

1959, John Millar Carroll, Modern Transistor Circuits:

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

1962, Burroughs Corporation, Digital Computer Principles:

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

1987, David Ardayfio, Fundamentals of Robotics:

Diode matrix is the most fundamental of all ROM structure.

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

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


primary

/ˈpɹaɪˌmɛɹi/

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

bor

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


pot

en-verb

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

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

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

cog

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


pot

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

slide pot

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

thumb pot

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


grid

Back-formation or clipping of griddle or gridiron.

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


reception

en-noun

reception (countable and uncountable, plural receptions)

/ɹɪˈsɛp.ʃn̩/

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

der

We have poor TV reception in the valley.

The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.

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

прие́мане

electronics: act or ability to receive signals


flip-flop

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

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

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

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

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


ADC

en-noun

ADC (countable and uncountable, plural ADCs)

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

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


EEPROM

(electronics) Electrically erasable programmable read-only memory.


bar

bar (countable and uncountable, plural bars)

→ Albanian: bar m

→ Arabic: بَار m (bār)

→ Armenian: բար (bar)

→ Bulgarian: бар (bar)

→ Burmese: ဘား (bha:)

→ Chichewa: bála

→ Cantonese: 吧 (baa¹)

→ Czech: bar m

→ Danish: bar c

→ Dutch: bar m

→ Esperanto: baro

→ Estonian: baar

→ French: bar m
→ Romanian: bar

→ Galician: bar m

→ Georgian: ბარი (bari)

→ German: Bar f

→ Greek: μπαρ n (bar)

→ Gulf Arabic: بار (bār)

→ Hebrew: בָּר (bar), בָּאר (bár)

→ Hungarian: bár (also via German)

→ Icelandic: bar m

→ Irish: beár m

→ Italian: bar m

→ Japanese: バー (bā)

→ Khmer: បារ (baa)

→ Korean: 바 (ba)

→ Lithuanian: bãras m

→ Macedonian: бар m (bar)

→ Malagasy: ba

→ Mandarin: 吧 (bā)

→ Norwegian:

Bokmål: bar m

Nynorsk: bar m

→ Persian: بار (bâr)

→ Polish: bar m

→ Portuguese: bar m

→ Russian: бар m (bar)

→ Serbo-Croatian: ба̑р m, bȃr m

→ Slovene: bȃr m

→ Spanish: bar m

→ Swahili: baa

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

→ Thai: บาร์ (baa)

→ Turkish: bar

→ Xhosa: íbhári

→ Zulu: ibha

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

der

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

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

linie

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


net

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

der

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

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


envelope

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

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

mähisjoon

electronics: curve that bounds a set of curves


carrier

но́сьбіт

person or object that carries someone or something else

(physics, electronics) A charge carrier.


wafer

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

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


via

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

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


land

en-noun

land (countable and uncountable, plural lands)

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

cog

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

johdinkuvio

electronics: conducting area on a board or chip


buck

en-verb

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

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

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

gl

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

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


mode

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

tila

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

airplane mode; night mode

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

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

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


ATM

en-noun

ATM (countable and uncountable, plural ATMs)

asynchronous transfer mode
asynchronous transfer mode#English

(telecommunications, electronics) Initialism of asynchronous transfer mode.

ATM

(telecommunication, electronics) Asynchronous Transfer Mode


battery

battery (countable and uncountable, plural batteries)

Korean: 배터리 (baeteori)

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

der

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

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

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

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

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

(countable, electronics) A device used to power electric devices, consisting of a set of electrically connected electrochemical or, archaically, electrostatic cells. A single such cell when used by itself.

rafgeymir

rechargeable, usually large, such as in vehicles


source

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

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

der

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


active

en-adj

active (comparative more active, superlative most active)

more active (comparative)
most active (superlative)

Albanian: aktiv

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


active

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

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

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


pulse

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

nb...

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

der

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


pulse

en-verb

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

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

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

inh

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

прилагам импулс

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

electromagnetic wave
electromagnetic wave

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


chip

→ Catalan: xip

→ Greek: τσιπ (tsip)

→ Italian: chip

→ Korean: 칩 (chip)

desc

→ Hebrew: צִ׳יפְּס, צִ׳יפּ

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

→ Hungarian: csip, csipsz

→ Turkish: cips, çip

→ Yiddish: טשיפּל (tshipl)

→ Welsh: tsip

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

cog

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

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

πλακίδιο ολοκληρωμένου κυκλώματος

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

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

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

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


UART

w:universal asynchronous receiver transmitter

(electronics) Initialism of universal asynchronous receiver transmitter.


MOV

(electronics) Initialism of metal-oxide varistor.


IGBT

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

(electronics) Initialism of insulated-gate bipolar transistor.


MOSFET

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


PWM

(electronics) Initialism of pulsewidth modulation.


NTC

(electronics) Initialism of Negative Temperature Coefficient.


DSP

digital signal processor
w:digital signal processor

(electronics, countable) Initialism of digital signal processor.

digital signal processing
digital signal processing#English

(electronics, uncountable) Initialism of digital signal processing.


VCO

voltage controlled oscillator
w:voltage controlled oscillator

(electronics) Initialism of voltage controlled oscillator.


DUT

(electronics) Initialism of device under test.


IO

en-noun

IO (countable and uncountable, plural IOs)

Alternative form: I/O

(computing, electronics) Initialism of input and output.


CCD

CCD (countable and uncountable, plural CCDs)

Charge-coupled device
Colony Collapse Disorder

charge-coupled device
charge-coupled device#English

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


CRT

CRT (countable and uncountable, plural CRTs)

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

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

cathode ray tube
cathode ray tube#English

(electronics, computing) Initialism of cathode ray tube.

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


DAC

DAC (countable and uncountable, plural DACs)

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


PLL

PLL (countable and uncountable, plural PLLs)

phase-locked loop
phase-locked loop#English

(electronics) Initialism of phase-locked loop.


PCB

PCB (countable and uncountable, plural PCBs)

LED flexible PCB strip

printed circuit board
printed circuit board#English

(electronics) Initialism of printed circuit board.

(electronics) Initialism of physically changeable bit.


SCR

SCR (countable and uncountable, plural SCRs)

(electronics) Initialism of silicon controlled rectifier.


CMOS

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

Комплементарный полевой транзистор

МОП-транзистор


FET

(electronics) Initialism of field effect transistor.


PAL

PAL (countable and uncountable, plural PALs)

programmable array logic
w:programmable array logic

(electronics, countable) Acronym of programmable array logic.


RF

RF (countable and uncountable, plural RFs)

(electronics, physics) Initialism of radio frequency.


IC

IC (countable and uncountable, plural ICs)

integrated circuit
integrated circuit#English

(electronics) Initialism of integrated circuit.


UPS

UPS (countable and uncountable, plural UPSes)

uninterruptible power supply/source
uninterruptible power supply#English

(electronics) Initialism of uninterruptible power supply/source

SAI

(initialism) uninterruptible power supply


UPS

en-verb

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

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

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

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


trace

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

der

printed circuit board
printed circuit board

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

لِوْحَة دَارَاتُ مَطَبُوعَة

(electronics) electric current-carrying conductive pathway


drain

→ French: drain

→ Irish: draein

→ Welsh: draen

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

der

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

drain

(electronics) name of one terminal of a transistor


MBD

en-noun

MBD (countable and uncountable, plural MBDs)

(computing, electronics) Initialism of motherboard.


capacitor

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

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


passive

en-adj

passive (comparative more passive, superlative most passive)

more passive (comparative)
most passive (superlative)

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

der

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


passive

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

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

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

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

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


nor

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

(logic, electronics) Alternative form of NOR


inductor

Borrowed from Medieval Latin inductor, from Latin induco.

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

cívka

passive electrical device — see also coil


junction

→ Bengali: জংশন (joṅśon)

→ Japanese: ジャンクション

/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/

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

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


triad

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

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


microcontroller

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


complement

en-noun

complement (countable and uncountable, plural complements)

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

der

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


stage

→ Japanese: ステージ (sutēji)

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

cog

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

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


stub

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

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


bias

en-noun

bias (countable and uncountable, plural biases or biasses)

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

(electronics) A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.

předpětí

electronics: voltage or current applied to electronic device


bias

en-verb

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

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

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


cap

parasitic caps

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


analog-to-digital converter

en-noun

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

Coordinate term: digital-to-analog converter

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

ciferecigilo

device that converts analog signal to digital signal


default

default (countable and uncountable, plural defaults)

→ Russian: дефо́лт (defólt)

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

der

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

լռելյայն

electronics, computing: original settings


EPIC

(electronics) Acronym of epitaxial integrated circuit.


RFID

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

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

radio-frequency identification
radio-frequency identification#English

(electronics) Initialism of radio-frequency identification.


position

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

positio

finance: amount of financial instruments held by someone

emergency position indicating radio beacon

emergency position indicating radio-beacon

emergency position indicating radiobeacon


dope

en-verb

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

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

→ Catalan: dopar

→ French: doper

→ Galician: dopar

→ German: dopen

→ Italian: dopare

→ Portuguese: dopar

→ Spanish: dopar

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

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

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

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


press

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

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

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

cog

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


gate

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

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


pad

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

unk

probably

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

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

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


thermistor

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


dock

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

der

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


e-

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


frame

→ Korean: 프레임 (peureim)

→ Swahili: fremu

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

der

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


spur

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


TIM

en-noun

TIM (countable and uncountable, plural TIMs)

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

(electronics) Initialism of time interval meter.


bounce

en-verb

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

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

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

unc

uncertain

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

See if it helps to bounce the router.

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


NO

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


strand

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

cog

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

johdin

electronics: group of wires, usually twisted or braided


chopper

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


bulger

(electronics) A capacitor with a bulging top.

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


anode

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

անոդ

the electrode of an electrochemical cell at which oxidation occurs

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

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


diode

→ French: diode (see there for further descendants)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


decay

en-verb

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

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

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

der

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

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


raster

/ˈɹɑːstə(ɹ)/

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

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


cue

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

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


commutation

en-noun

commutation (countable and uncountable, plural commutations)

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

(electronics) The reversal of an electric current.


assert

en-verb

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

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

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

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


iris

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

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

der

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


elaboration

en-noun

elaboration (countable and uncountable, plural elaborations)

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

From Middle French élaboration.
Morphologically elaborate + -ion

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


arbiter

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

der

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


latch

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

inh

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


node

→ Irish: nód

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

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


mesh

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

der

Kirchhoff's voltage law
Kirchhoff's voltage law

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


secondary

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

English numerals#Ordinal numbers
secondary

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


player

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

inh

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

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


yoke

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

poikkipuu

linking or supporting object that resembles a yoke

駕駛桿

device with crosspieces used to control an aircraft

iugum

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

Senses relating to a frame around the neck.

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

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


ASIC

(electronics) Acronym of application-specific integrated circuit.


kludge

Perhaps from British military slang, possibly based on a Scots word kludge or kludgie (“common toilet”), or perhaps from German klug (“clever”). Alternatively, possibly related to Polish klucz (“a key, a hint, a main point”) and Russian ключ (ključ, “key, clue”).
Alternatively, perhaps from (a form related to) Germanic words such as Dutch Low Saxon klütje (“(little) dumpling, clod”), Dutch kluit(je) or Jutland Danish klyt (“piece of bad workmanship, klud(g)e”); compare and standard Danish kludder (“mess, disorder”). (Compare klutz.)
There is evidence that kluge (which see) was once a separate word with similar meaning but separate derivation, but the spelling kludge was widely popularized in the US by a 1962 Datamation article on "How to Design a Kludge", and since then the two words have often been used as alternative spellings of each other.
According to the OED, an "invented word" influenced by bodge and fudge.

cog

(informal, electronics, engineering) An improvised device, typically crudely constructed to test the validity of a principle before doing a finished design.


TLC

en-noun

TLC (countable and uncountable, plural TLCs)

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


watchdog

/ˈwɑːt͡ʃˌdɑːɡ/

/ˈwɒt͡ʃˌdɒɡ/

(electronics, computing) Ellipsis of watchdog timer.


watchdog

en-verb

watchdog (third-person singular simple present watchdogs, present participle watchdogging, simple past and past participle watchdogged)

watchdogs (present singular third-person)
watchdogging (participle present)
watchdogged (participle past)
watchdogged (past)

/ˈwɑːt͡ʃˌdɑːɡ/

/ˈwɒt͡ʃˌdɒɡ/

(electronics) To be continuously reset by a watchdog timer.


pedestal

From Middle French piédestal from Italian piedistallo (literally “foot stand”).

uder

(electronics) The measured value when no input signal is given.


channel

→ Japanese: チャンネル (channeru)

→ Korean: 채널 (chaeneol)

→ Welsh: sianel

From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin canālis (“groove; canal; channel”). Doublet of canal.

kanal

communication: single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation

kanaal

broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television

The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.

(electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.

kanal

electronics: connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit

(electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.


strapper

From strap + -er, principally strap + -er (agent noun suffix). The sense referring to a poorly producing milk cow (from strap + -er) came from a dialectal sense of the verb strap as a troponym of milk: not even the most skilful milking action could coax enough milk from the udder.

(electronics) A wire that joins two light switches so that a light can be turned off or on from either switch.


populate

en-verb

populate (third-person singular simple present populates, present participle populating, simple past and past participle populated)

populates (present singular third-person)
populating (participle present)
populated (participle past)
populated (past)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin populātus, past participle of populor (“populate”), from Latin populus (“people”).

(electronics) To fill initially empty slots or sockets on a circuit board or similar.


notch

Recorded since 1577, probably a rebracketing of an + otch, which noun stems from Middle French oche (“notch”), itself from the Old French verb ochier (“to notch”), of uncertain origin, but possibly related to French hocher and English nick (“small cut, notch”).

(electronics) A portion of a mobile phone that overlaps the edge of the screen, used to house a camera, sensors etc. while maximizing screen space.


terminator

[ˈtɜː.mɪ.næɪ.ɾə]

* Partly from post-classical Latin terminator (5th century), from Latin terminō; partly from terminate + -or.
* (android that kills humans): After the 1984 film The Terminator.

(electronics) An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.


standby

en-noun

standby (countable and uncountable, plural standbys)


FED

Field emission display
field emission display#English


UE

(electronics) Initialism of User Equipment. (in UMTS)


resistance

resistance (countable and uncountable, plural resistances)

From earlier resistence, from Middle English resistence, from Old French resistence, from Latin resistentia.
Morphologically resist + -ance.

In our study of simple electrical circuits, we have considered a single source of E.M.F. for each individual circuit but we have learned that any number of resistances may be connected in parallel […]

1928, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Long Lines Dept, Principles of Electricity Applied to Telephone and Telegraph Work (page 52)


depopulate

en-verb

depopulate (third-person singular simple present depopulates, present participle depopulating, simple past and past participle depopulated)

depopulates (present singular third-person)
depopulating (participle present)
depopulated (participle past)
depopulated (past)

(transitive, electronics) To remove the components from a circuit board.


ballast

en-noun

ballast (usually uncountable, plural ballasts)

From Middle English bar (“bare”) + last (“load”).

(countable, electricity, electronics) device used for stabilizing current in an electric circuit (e.g. in a tube lamp supply circuit)


crystal set

(electronics) An early radio receiver, having no electrical power supply except the radio waves themselves; it used a crystal of lead or cadmium sulphide and a wire (the cat's whisker) touching the crystal's surface.


attenuate

en-verb

attenuate (third-person singular simple present attenuates, present participle attenuating, simple past and past participle attenuated)

attenuates (present singular third-person)
attenuating (participle present)
attenuated (participle past)
attenuated (past)

From Latin attenuāre, from attenuāt-, at- = ad- (“to”) + tenuāre (“to make thin”), tenuis (“thin”).

(transitive, electronics) To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.


HOT

en-noun

HOT (countable and uncountable, plural HOTs)

hybrid-orientation technology
hybrid-orientation technology#English

(electronics) Acronym of hybrid-orientation technology. (CMOS fabrication technology that uses PMOS and NMOS substrates with differing orientations)

hybrid-orientation technology

hybrid-orientation technique
hybrid-orientation technique#English

(electronics) Acronym of hybrid-orientation technique. (a technique that applies the technology)


disable

en-verb

disable (third-person singular simple present disables, present participle disabling, simple past and past participle disabled)

disables (present singular third-person)
disabling (participle present)
disabled (participle past)
disabled (past)

The pilot had to disable the autopilot of his airplane.

(chiefly electronics, computing) To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

afskakel

to deactivate a function of an electronic or mechanical device


memory chip

(computing, electronics) A RAM, ROM, PROM, EPROM or EEPROM microchip that can be plugged into a personal computer to provide temporary or permanent memory.


ghosting

en-noun

ghosting (countable and uncountable, plural ghostings)

(electronics, television) The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.

Geisterbild

appearance of ghosts on a television screen


quad

Shortened, via clipping or abbreviation, from various English terms. Ultimately related to Latin quattuor (“4”); compare quadri-, quadruple.
The typography senses are from the abbreviation quad. for obsolete quadrat; the keyboard command comes from the verb sense.

Clipping of quadruplet (“a set of four; one of a set of four”).

(electronics, telecommunications) A group of four insulated wires twisted together to form two circuits of two wires each.


coil

→ Japanese: コイル (koiru)

From Middle English coilen, from Old French coillir, cuillir (“to gather, pluck, pick, cull”) (modern French cueillir), from Latin colligō (“to gather together”), past participle collectus, from com- (“together”) + legō (“to gather”); compare legend. Doublet of cull.

(electronics) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.

وَشِيعَة

coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow — see also inductor


generation loss

generation loss (countable and uncountable, plural generation losses)

(electronics) The loss of quality between successive copies, usually associated with magnetic audio and video media.


choke

From Middle English choken (also cheken), from earlier acheken, from Old English āċēocian (“to choke”), probably derived from Old English ċēoce, ċēace (“jaw, cheek”), see cheek. Cognate with Icelandic kok (“throat”), koka (“to gulp”). See also achoke.


twitter

twitter (countable and uncountable, plural twitters)

From Middle English twitren, twiteren, from Old English *twiterian, from Proto-West Germanic *twitwiʀōn, from Proto-Germanic *twitwizōną (“to chirp; twitter”). Cognate with Low German twitteren (“to twitter”), German zwitzern, zwitschern (“to twitter”). Compare also Dutch kwetteren (“to twitter”), Danish kvidre (“to twitter”), Swedish kvittra (“to twitter”), dialectal Swedish tittra (“to twitter”).

inh

Interline twitter occurs on interlaced displays at half the field-rate.

1986, Second International Conference on Simulators: 7-11 September 1986, IEEE, page 145:

(uncountable, electronics) Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.


UHF

UHF antenna

Ultra High Frequency
ultra high frequency#English

(electronics) Initialism of Ultra High Frequency.


male-to-female

(electronics, of an adapter) That changes a male end (with pins, usually a plug) of a connection into a female one (usually a socket).


female-to-male

(electronics, of an adapter) That changes a female end (usually a socket) of a connection into a male one (with pins, usually a plug).


interrupt

/ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/

/ˈɪntəˌɹʌpt/

Borrowed from Latin interruptus, from interrumpere (“to break apart, break to pieces, break off, interrupt”), from inter (“between”) + rumpere (“to break”).

The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.

(computing, electronics) An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.

přerušení

an event that causes a computer to temporarily cease


Darlington

/ˈdɑːlɪŋtən/

-ɑː(ɹ)lɪŋtən

From Middle English Dearnington, Derlinton, from Old English Dearthingtun, supposedly “the settlement of Deornoth's people”, from an unclear root + -ing + -tun. The transistor configuration is named for its inventor, Sidney Darlington.

(electronics) Short for Darlington pair.


PDA

en-noun

PDA (countable and uncountable, plural PDAs)

Despite the fast pace of innovation in PDAs, particularly this year, a number of standards have emerged allowing software makers the security needed to invest in developing extensive software for three platforms: the PalmPilot made by 3Com, the Psion Series 5 by Psion and Windows CE devices made by a group of companies including Philips, Sharp Electronics, Casio Corp. and Hewlett Packard Corp.

1998 November 16, Paul Floren, “Digital Assistants Get Sophisticated”, in International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:

personal digital assistant
personal digital assistant#English

(electronics) Initialism of personal digital assistant.


cathode

From Ancient Greek κατα- (kata-, “down”) and ὁδός (hodós, “journey, way”), equivalent to Ancient Greek κάθοδος (káthodos, “way down, descent”). Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1834 for Michael Faraday, who introduced it later that year. By surface analysis, cath- (alternative form of cata-) + -ode.

surf

(electronics) The electrode from which electrons are emitted into a vacuum tube or gas-filled tube.

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


IED

en-noun

IED (countable and uncountable, plural IEDs)

(electronics) Initialism of Intelligent Electronic Device (a sensor, actuator, or PLC used as part of a SCADA system)


BT

(electronics) Abbreviation of Bluetooth.


controller

/kənˈtɹəʊlə/

From Middle English countreroller, from Anglo-Norman contreroulour and Middle French contreroleur (French contrôleur), from Medieval Latin contrārotulātor, from *contrārotulāre (from which control). By surface analysis, control + -er.

Nothing more can be squeezed out of the motive power unit once the master controller has been moved to full on.

1963 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 115:

(electronics) Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.


turret

From Middle English touret, from Old French torete (French tourette), diminutive of tour (“tower”), from Latin turris. Doublet of tor, tourelle, and tower. See tower.

оръдейна кула

a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates

(electronics) A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).


NCO

Number Controlled Oscillator
Number Controlled Oscillator#English

(electronics) Initialism of Number Controlled Oscillator.


modulate

en-verb

modulate (third-person singular simple present modulates, present participle modulating, simple past and past participle modulated)

modulates (present singular third-person)
modulating (participle present)
modulated (participle past)
modulated (past)

/ˈmɑː.d͡ʒəˌleɪt/

From Latin modulor (“to measure, regulate, modulate”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from modulus (“measure”); see modulus. Compare module. By surface analysis, modul(e) + -ate.

af

(transitive) To regulate, adjust or adapt

(transitive, electronics) to vary the amplitude, frequency or phase of a carrier wave in proportion to the amplitude etc of a source wave (such as speech or music)


amplification

en-noun

amplification (countable and uncountable, plural amplifications)

From Latin amplificātiō, from amplificō (“I amplify”); see amplify.
Etymology tree
Latin amplus
Latin -ficō
Latin amplificō
Latin -tiō
Latin amplificātiōlbor.
English amplification


STP

en-noun

STP (countable and uncountable, plural STPs)

shielded twisted pair
shielded twisted pair#English

(electronics) Initialism of shielded twisted pair.


VFD

(electronics) Initialism of vacuum fluorescent display.

(electronics) Initialism of variable-frequency drive.


debug

en-verb

debug (third-person singular simple present debugs, present participle debugging, simple past and past participle debugged)

debugs (present singular third-person)
debugging (participle present)
debugged (participle past)
debugged (past)

Typical fees: $75 to check a particular telephone, $125 to debug one room, $500 to debug a suite of offices— all plus expenses and transportation.

1969, John Millar Carroll, The Third Listener: Personal Electronic Espionage, page 30:

It conducts background investigations of new CIA employees and CIA contractors, administers polygraph tests to employees and agents, debugs offices at Langley and overseas stations, patrols the buildings and grounds, protects the director and other key CIA officials, and investigates security problems.

2012, Ronald Kessler, Inside the CIA, page 172:

It is good to acquire information about how to perform the debugging operation and the type of tools that will be used, from which you may already have an idea of the technical and instrumental skills, having acquired a plenty of technical information after reading this chapter.

2013, F. Garzia, Handbook of Communications Security, page 620:

(electronics) To remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from (somewhere).

拆除竊聽器

to remove a hidden electronic surveillance device


ERA

en-noun

ERA (countable and uncountable, plural ERAs)

(electronics) Initialism of electrically reconfigurable array.


SOA

SOA (countable and uncountable, plural SOAs)

semiconductor optical amplifier
semiconductor optical amplifier#English

(electronics) Initialism of semiconductor optical amplifier, a device that amplifies an optical signal directly.

semiconductor optical amplifier

safe operating area
safe operating area#English

(electronics) Initialism of safe operating area, the current conditions over which a device can be expected to operate without self-damage.


layout

→ German: Layout

→ Dutch: lay-out

→ Polish: layout

→ Portuguese: layout

→ Russian: лейаут (lejaut)

→ Swedish: layout

(electronics) A specification of an integrated circuit showing the position of the physical components that will implement the schematic in silicon.


implementation

implementation (countable and uncountable, plural implementations)

By surface analysis, implement + -ation.

His implementation works, but it needs some fine-tuning.

(electronics) A result of implementing something; a finished product, system or device.


SSL

(electronics) Initialism of Start-Stop Logic.


clamp

From Middle Dutch clamp, klampe (“a clamp, hook”), from Proto-Germanic *klampō (“clamp, clasp, cramp”), related to Proto-West Germanic *klammjan.
Cognate with Middle Low German klampe (“hook, clasp”), German Klampfe, Klampe (“clamp, cleat”), Norwegian klamp (“clamp”), Alemannic German Chlempi.

cog

(electronics) An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC value.


cat's whisker

(electronics) The wire that touches the crystal in a crystal radio.


collector

From Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collector, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).

инкасатор

person who is employed to collect payments

(electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.


DSL

Fill your gut to a comfortable level, and the LPA tells your brain to drop the fork. Trouble is, it delivers that information at dial-up speed in a DSL world.

2008 October, David Schipper, “Outsmart your stomach: Seven ways to fill your gut—and lose it, too”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 135:

digital subscriber line
digital subscriber line#English

(electronics) Initialism of digital subscriber line.


TC

(electronics) Initialism of time counter.

(electronics) Initialism of thermocouple.


D

en-noun

D (countable and uncountable, plural Ds)


blivet

Unknown; seems to have been coined by American soldiers in World War Two.

(electronics) An electronic signal that is normally high or on, but goes low for a very short period and then returns to high. A low going spike.


Q

Q (countable and uncountable, plural Qs)

(electronics) Short for Q factor (“quality factor”).


tweeter

(electronics) An electronic speaker designed to produce high-frequency sound.


DCH

(communication, electronics) Initialism of dedicated channel (in UMTS).


PD

PD (countable and uncountable, plural PDs)

(electronics) Initialism of phase detector.

(electronics) Initialism of power delivery.


AAL

AAL (countable and uncountable, plural AALs)

(electronics) Initialism of asynchronous transfer mode adaptation layer; ATM adaptation layer.


gimmick

Unknown. Possibly a rough anagram of magic or from gimme.


NDC

(electronics) Initialism of negative differential conductance.


VHF

The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.

1976, Boating (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)

VHF radio

very high frequency
very high frequency#English

(electronics) Initialism of very high frequency.


UTP

(electronics) unshielded twisted pair — a type of cable used for computer networking and telecommunications


EC

EC (countable and uncountable, plural ECs)

(electronics) Initialism of edge combiner.


BCD

binary-coded decimal
binary-coded decimal#English

(computing, electronics) Initialism of binary-coded decimal.


PROM

Programmable read-only memory
programmable read-only memory#English

(electronics) Programmable read-only memory: A PROM chip can be programmed one or more times (depending on the type) and generally cannot be re-programmed without special equipment (if at all). Once programmed and installed in a device, it functions as a read-only chip (as if it had been hard-wired to function that way.)


DRC

design rule check
design rule check#English

(electronics) Initialism of design rule check.


HDL

hardware description language
hardware description language#English

(electronics) Initialism of hardware description language.

DTD

electronics: initialism of Hardware Description Language


NCAP

NCAP (countable and uncountable, plural NCAPs)

(electronics) Initialism of nematic curvilinear aligned phase.


DDS

DDS (countable and uncountable, plural DDSs or DDSes)

(electronics) Initialism of direct digital synthesis.


ECL

emitter-coupled logic
emitter-coupled logic#English

(electronics) Initialism of emitter-coupled logic.


ICT

ICT (countable and uncountable, plural ICTs)

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

2012, Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council
In order to speed up the decision-making process, national standardisation bodies and European standardisation organisations should facilitate accessible information on their activities through the promotion of the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in their respective standardisation systems, for example by providing to all relevant stakeholders an easy-to-use online consultation mechanism for the submission of comments on draft standards and by organising virtual meetings, including by means of web conferencing or video conferencing, of technical committees.

2014, "No end to ICT skills crunch" by Lance Harris, published on itweb.co.za
The total number of students that enrolled for these courses has grown only slightly and the marginal increase of graduates does not match the growth rate of the ICT industry.
Graduates with ICT qualifications, senior managers and especially mid-career professionals are all still in short supply across a range of disciplines and market segments.

information and communications technology#English

(uncountable, electronics, communication) Initialism of Information and Communications Technology.

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Initialism of information and communications technology


ACS

ACS (countable and uncountable, plural ACSs)

(communication, electronics) Initialism of adjacent channel selectivity.


LW

LW (countable and uncountable, plural LWs)


IPS

in-plane switching
in-plane switching#English

(electronics) Initialism of in-plane switching (“LCD screen technology”).


STA

(electronics) Initialism of static timing analysis (of a digital circuit)


LF

LF (countable and uncountable, plural LFs)

(electronics, telecommunications) Initialism of low frequency.


capstan

Borrowed into Middle English from either Old French cabestan, from Old Occitan cabestan, from cabestre (“pulley cord”) or from Spanish cabestran, both of which derive from Latin capistrum (“halter”), from capiō (“take hold of”).

capstan (nautical)
capstan (tape recorder)

pawl the capstan

to drop the pawl so that they will catch in the notches of the pawl ring

and prevent the capstan from turning back

(electronics) A rotating spindle used to move recording tape through the mechanism of a tape recorder.


PES

IEEE Power Engineering Society
w:IEEE Power Engineering Society

(electronics) Initialism of IEEE Power Engineering Society.


CAS

CAS (countable and uncountable, plural CASes)

(electronics, communication) Initialism of channel-associated signalling.


TID

(electronics) Initialism of time-interval digitizer.


OTP

(electronics) Initialism of one-time programmable.


rx

(uncountable, electronics, telecommunications) Abbreviation of reception.


Rx

(uncountable, electronics, telecommunications) Alternative form of rx (“reception”)


tx

Alternative form: Tx

(uncountable, electronics, telecommunications) Abbreviation of transmission.


PGA

(electronics) Initialism of pin grid array, a type of integrated circuit package, describing the electrical connections to circuit boards on which such a package is mounted.


TI

TI (countable and uncountable, plural TIs)

(electronics) Initialism of time interval.


sensitivity

sensitivity (countable and uncountable, plural sensitivities)

чуллі́васць

the ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli

Up to 1,884 microplastic particles were found per cubic metre of seawater in some locations, up to 18 times higher than in similar tests during the last Ocean Race, which ended in 2018. Scientists noted that the sensitivity of their instruments is now higher.

2023 June 5, Yvonne Gordon, “Microplastics found in every sample of water taken during Ocean Race”, in The Guardian:

(electronics) The degree of response of an instrument to a change in an input signal.

чувстви́телност

(electronics) degree of response of an instrument to a change in an input signal


DDR

DDR (countable and uncountable, plural DDRs)

(electronics) Initialism of double data rate.


SSR

(electronics) Initialism of solid-state relay.


rectify

en-verb

rectify (third-person singular simple present rectifies, present participle rectifying, simple past and past participle rectified)

rectifies (present singular third-person)
rectifying (participle present)
rectified (participle past)
rectified (past)

/ˈɹɛktəˌfaɪ/

From Middle English rectifien, from Anglo-Norman rectifiier, rectefier (“to make straight”), from Medieval Latin rēctificō (“to make right”), from Latin rēctus (“straight”).

der

(transitive, electronics) To convert (alternating current) into direct current.

изправям

to convert alternating current into direct current


enable

en-verb

enable (third-person singular simple present enables, present participle enabling, simple past and past participle enabled)

enables (present singular third-person)
enabling (participle present)
enabled (participle past)
enabled (past)

From Middle English enablen, equivalent to en- + able.

давам възможност

to give power, sanction or authorization to; to provide with abilities, means, opportunities

umožnit

to allow a way out or excuse for an action

(electronics) To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.

(chiefly electronics, computing) To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

aanskakel

to activate a function of an electronic or mechanical device


radiator

→ Gulf Arabic: راديتر (rādētar)

/ˈrædɪeɪ̯tə/

From radiate + -or. Doublet of radiatori.


IF

en-noun

IF (countable and uncountable, plural IFs)

intermediate frequency
intermediate frequency#English

(electronics) Initialism of intermediate frequency.


gender changer

(electronics) A coupling device that allows two male or two female connectors to be joined together.


thyristor

Blend of thyratron (1930) + transistor (1947). First attested c. 1965, as an alternative name for the Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR) developed in the late 1950s.

blend

In calling it a "Thyristor", Mr. Warder was following a growing practice which takes account of the fact that in years to come the controlled rectifier may be made of other materials than silicon.

1963 November, “A "Second Generation" in traction”, in Modern Railways, page 290:

Figure 1.4 shows a modern thyristor encapsulated in a presspack housing and Figure 1.5 illustrates a typical interdigitated gate geometry in a high-power thyristor; the black areas indicate silicon ( Si0₂ ) and the white areas the Al metallisation.

1998, J. Arrillaga, High Voltage Direct Current Transmission, page 6:

(electronics) A semiconductor diode having an extra "gate" terminal to switch it on.


varistor

/vɛəˈɹɪstə(ɹ)/

(electronics) An electronic component having a variable resistance; used to protect circuits against power surges.

varistori

electronic component with variable resistance


printed circuit board

en-noun

printed circuit board (plural printed circuit boards)

(electronics) A flat board that holds chips and other electronic components in layers that interconnect via copper pathways, often called traces.


ground out

en-verb

ground out (third-person singular simple present grounds out, present participle grounding out, simple past and past participle grounded out)

grounds out (present singular third-person)
grounding out (participle present)
grounded out (participle past)
grounded out (past)

(electronics) To provide proper grounding for a circuit.


amplifier

(electronics) An appliance or circuit that increases the strength of a weak electrical signal without changing the other characteristics of the signal.


resonance

en-noun

resonance (countable and uncountable, plural resonances)

From Old French resonance (French résonance), from Latin resonantia (“echo”), from resonō (“I resound”).

(electronics) The condition where the inductive and capacitive reactances have equal magnitude.


mixer

→ Dutch: mixer

→ French: mixer

→ Polish: mikser

→ Romanian: mixer

desc

→ Russian: ми́ксер (míkser), ми́кшер (míkšer)

→ Turkish: mikser, mixer

(electronics) A nonlinear electrical circuit that creates new frequencies from two signals applied to it.


IDE

en-noun

IDE (countable and uncountable, plural IDEs)

(electronics, uncountable) Initialism of integrated drive electronics.


parasitic

[ˌpɛɹ.əˈsɪɾ.ɪk]

[ˌpæɹ.əˈsɪɾ.ɪk]

(electronics) A component of a circuit that does not show up in a circuit's schematic but does show up in the circuit's behavior.


suppress

en-verb

suppress (third-person singular simple present suppresses, present participle suppressing, simple past and past participle suppressed)

suppresses (present singular third-person)
suppressing (participle present)
suppressed (participle past)
suppressed (past)

From Latin suppressus, perfect passive participle of supprimō (“press down or under”), from sub (“under”) + premō (“press”).

(electronics) To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.

потискам

electronics: to reduce unwanted frequencies