diode

→ French: diode (see there for further descendants)

From di- (“two”) + -ode. Learned formation, coined by William Henry Eccles in 1919, after Ancient Greek δίοδος (díodos, “passage through”), which however is formed not with δι- (di-, “two”) but with δια- (dia-, “through”).

der

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.


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.

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


raster

/ˈɹɑːstə(ɹ)/

From German Raster, from Latin rāster, from rāstrum (“rake”, noun), from rādō (“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.


shunt

en-verb

shunt (third-person singular simple present shunts, present participle shunting, simple past and past participle shunted)

shunts (present singular third-person)
shunting (participle present)
shunted (participle past)
shunted (past)

From Middle English shunten, schunten, schonten, schounten, shont, shonte, shount, shounten, shunte (“to move rapidly or suddenly, jerk; to swerve, turn away; to avoid, dodge, escape, evade”), either:
* possibly a back-formation from Middle English shǒnen (“to decline to do, refuse; to abandon, forsake; to disdain, dislike, hate; to avoid, escape; to be afraid, fear; to be wary of”), from Old English sċunian, sċyniġan; see shun. Or
* an alteration of Middle English shunden, *schunden, *schinden, from Old English sċyndan, sċendan (“to hasten, hurry”) (as in āsċyndan (“to remove, take away”), from Proto-West Germanic *skundijan, from Proto-Germanic *skundijaną (“to compel, drive, push; to accelerate, rush, speed up”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kew(n)t- (“to rattle, shake”).
* from unrecorded Old English *sċunettan, a derivative of sċunian (“to shun, avoid”).
The English word is cognate with Danish skynde (“to hasten, hurry, speed”), Icelandic skynda, skunda (“to hasten”), Middle High German schünden (“to compel; to urge; to irritate”), Norwegian skynde (“to hurry, rush”), Swedish skynda (“to hasten, hurry; to scuttle, scurry”). Outside Germanic, compare Sanskrit स्कन्दति (skándati, “to dart, leap, spring, spurt or burst forth, ejaculate, assail, drop, split”), Albanian shkund (“to shake; to swig”).
As regards the noun sense, compare Middle English shunt (“swerve; sudden jerk”), derived from the verb.

cog

The method of running an electric motor herein set out, which consists in starting the motor with the two halves of its armature in series with a resistance in a two-pole field, then gradually cutting out the resistance, then including the resistance and shunting one-half the motor, then opening the circuit of the shunted half and throwing the two halves of the motor in multiple in a four-pole field, and finally, cutting out the resistance.

1895 April 2, Merle J. Wightman, Regulation of Continuous-current Motors, US Patent 542,667, page 2, column 2:

(transitive, electricity) To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.


shunt

The sensibility of a galvanometer may be varied in a very simple manner by the use of what is termed a shunt. A shunt is a resistance coil, or coil of fine wire used to divert some definite portion of a current, taking it past a galvanometer instead of through its coils.

1873, Fleeming Jenkin, “Galvanometers”, in Electricity and Magnetism, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Co. […], §14, page 201:

(electricity) A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit.


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 /驾驶杆

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.

(electrical engineering) Originally, a metal piece connecting the poles of a magnet or electromagnet; later, a part of magnetic circuit (such as in a generator or motor) not surrounded by windings (“wires wound around the cores of electrical transformers”).

electrical engineering
electrical engineering

ies

metal piece connecting the poles of a magnet or electromagnet; part of magnetic circuit (such as in a generator or motor) not surrounded by windings

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


fuse

Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”), first to verbal sense, then noun.

(electrical engineering) A device to prevent excessive overcurrent from overload or short circuit in an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.

smeltdraad

device preventing overloading of a circuit


fuse

en-verb

fuse (third-person singular simple present fuses, present participle fusing, simple past and past participle fused)

fuses (present singular third-person)
fusing (participle present)
fused (participle past)
fused (past)

(transitive, electricity) To furnish with or install a fuse to protect a circuit against overcurrent.

When the bath overflowed, the downstairs lights fused, so we need a torch.

(transitive, electricity, of a circuit) To have been protected against overcurrent by its fuse melting away, creating a gap in the wire, thus stopping the circuit from operating.


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.


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.


breaker

From Middle English breker, brekere, equivalent to break + -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Low German Breker, German Brecher.

буренце

small cask of water in case of shipwreck

breaker panel

(electrical engineering) Ellipsis of circuit breaker.


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.


elaboration

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.


insulation

insulation (countable and uncountable, plural insulations)

/ˌɪnsəˈleɪʃən/

(electricity) a medium in which it is possible to maintain an electrical field with little supply of energy from additional sources.


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.


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.

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


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).


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).


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.


splice

Circa 1525, borrowed from Middle Dutch splissen (Modern Dutch splitsen); akin to Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”), German spleißen (“to split, splice”), Spliss (“split ends, hair breakage”), French épisser (also from Dutch). The Dutch word originally referred only to the fraying of the ropes' ends but was then also used for the entire process of fraying and retying; hence the peculiar semantic development from “split” to “join”. The same development occurred in German.

(electrical) The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.

ялғау

electrical and mechanical connection between wires


ASIC

integrated circuit
integrated circuit#English

(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.


trip

From Middle English trippen (“tread or step lightly and nimbly, skip, dance”), perhaps from Old French triper (“to hop or dance around, strike with the feet”), from a Frankish source; or alternatively from Middle Dutch trippen (“to skip, trip, hop, stamp, trample”) (> Modern Dutch trippelen (“to toddle, patter, trip”)). Akin to Middle Low German trippen ( > Danish trippe (“to trip”), Swedish trippa (“to mince, trip”)), West Frisian tripje (“to toddle, trip”), German trippeln (“to scurry”), Old English treppan (“to trample, tread”). Related also to trap, tramp.

cog

It's dark because the trip operated.


TLC

en-noun

TLC (countable and uncountable, plural TLCs)

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


power inverter

rectifier

antonym(s) of “a device that converts DC electricity to AC”

(electrical engineering) A device that converts direct current electricity to alternating current electricity.

инвертор

a device that converts DC electricity into AC


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.


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.


pedestal

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

uder

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


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.


bond

en-verb

bond (third-person singular simple present bonds, present participle bonding, simple past and past participle bonded)

bonds (present singular third-person)
bonding (participle present)
bonded (participle past)
bonded (past)

A house's distribution panel should always be bonded to the grounding rods via a panel bond.

(transitive, electricity) To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).


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.


populate

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.


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

(electronics) Initialism of field emission display.


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)


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.

At the end of March 2015 the onboard software configuration of the AGILE satellite was modified in order to disable the veto signal of the anticoincidence shield for the minicalorimeter instrument.

2016, M. Marisaldi, A. Argan, A. Ursi, T. Gjesteland, F. Fuschino, C. Labanti, M. Galli, M. Tavani, C. Pittori, F. Verrecchia, F. D'Amico, N. Østgaard, S. Mereghetti, R. Campana, P.W. Cattaneo, A. Bulgarelli, S. Colafrancesco, S. Dietrich, F. Longo, F. Gianotti, P. Giommi, A. Rappoldi, M. Trifoglio, A. Trois, “Enhanced detection of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes by AGILE”, in arXiv:

(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


attenuate

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.


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.


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)


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.


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


ghosting

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.


kilowatt-hour

(electricity) A unit of energy equal to that done by one kilowatt acting for one hour.


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.


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.


winding

winding (countable and uncountable, plural windings)

The noun is derived from Middle English winding, windinge, wyndynge (“directional change, curve, turn; bend of the leg at the knee; meandering course of a river; act of turning and twisting; twisting of things (especially thread) together; wrapping of a cloth around something; wattling of a structure; wattle(s); ornamentation with interwoven patterns; hoisting of something”) [and other forms], and then partly:
* from winden, wynden (“to go, move; to move forcefully or suddenly; to direct, guide, lead; to go along a meandering or twisting course; to move in a circular pattern, revolve, turn; to move restlessly, toss and turn; to wriggle free; to move with a turning or twisting motion, bend, turn, twist; to form or mould (something) in one’s hands; to mix together; to cover; to clothe, dress; to wrap (a baby, a corpse, etc.); to encircle, surround; to bind; to interlace; to winch; (figurative) to conceal, disguise; to embroil, involve”) + -ing, -inge (suffix forming gerund nouns, and the present participle forms of verbs).; and
* from Old English windung (“woven object”), from windan (“to twist, wind; to circle, curl, eddy, spiral”) (from Proto-Germanic *windaną (“to wind; to wrap”), from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“to turn; to wind”)) + -ung (suffix forming nouns denoting a verbal action or something involved in a verbal action).
The adjective is derived from the verb.
The English word is analysable as wind (“to turn coils of (a cord, etc.) around something; to encircle, enfold, entwist, wrap; to travel in a way that is not straight”) + -ing (suffix forming present participial adjectives and verbs, and nouns denoting an action or the embodiment of an action).

suffix

(electrical engineering) A length of wire wound around the armature of an electric motor or the core of an electrical transformer.


twitter

en-noun

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.


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


actuator

[ˈæk.t͡ʃʉ.æɪ.ɾə(ɹ)]

From actuate + -or. First attested in 1652.

(electrical) A relay that controls the flow of electricity.

aktuaattori

a relay that controls the flow of electricity


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).


resonant

en-adj

resonant (comparative more resonant, superlative most resonant)

more resonant (comparative)
most resonant (superlative)

Borrowed from French résonnant or Latin resonāre (“to resound”).

(electrical, of a circuit) Adjusted as to dimensions so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency.


jumper

(electricity) A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.


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 + tūn. Compare Old English dīerling. 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

(electricity) An electrode, of a cell or other electrically polarized device, through which a positive current of electricity flows outwards (and thus, electrons flow inwards). It can have either a negative or a positive voltage with respect to anode of the same polarized device (depending on whether the device is a load or a source, respectively).

կաթոդ

electrode through which current flows outward

(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.


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.


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.


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).


bushing

From bush (“metal lining of the axle hole of a wheel or touch hole of a gun”) + -ing.

suf

(electrical engineering) A lining for an opening through which a conductor passes, providing insulation and mechanical protection for the conductor.

läpivientieristin

electrical engineering: lining to insulate and protect


Fourier transform

en-noun

Fourier transform (plural Fourier transforms)

Named after French mathematician and physicist Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, who initiated the study of what is now harmonic analysis.

Fourier transforms are not limited to acting on functions of time, but the domain of the original function is commonly called the time domain.

The Fourier transform of a function of time is a complex function of frequency, whose magnitude (absolute value) represents the amount of that frequency present in the original function, and whose argument is the phase offset of the basic sinusoid in that frequency.

Since a separate integration is needed to give each point of the transformed function, the process would become extremely tedious if it were to be attempted manually and many ingenious devices have been invented for preforming Fourier transforms mechanically, electrically, acoustically and optically.

2002, J. F. James, A Student's Guide to Fourier Transforms, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 116:

2005, Emmanuel Letellier, Fourier Transforms of Invariant Functions on Finite Reductive Lie Algebras, Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1859, page 1,
The trigonometric sums of 𝒢^F are thus (up to a scalar) the Fourier transforms of the characteristic functions of the G^F!!-orbits of 𝒢^F.

2012, David Brandwood, Fourier Transforms in Radar and Signal Processing, Artech House, 2nd Edition, page 1,
The Fourier transform is a valuable theoretical technique, used widely in fields such as applied mathematics, statistics, physics, and engineering.

mathematical analysis
mathematical analysis

(mathematical analysis, harmonic analysis, physics, electrical engineering) A particular integral transform that when applied to a function of time (such as a signal), converts the function to one that plots the original function's frequency composition; the resultant function of such a conversion.

Fourier transform
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier

Fouriertransformatie

mathematics: a type of integral transform


transformer

/tɹɑːnsˈfɔːmə/

While initial reports Thursday traced the glow to a transformer explosion or a fire, Mr. McGee said there was no fire, and there were no transformers involved.

2018 December 28, Michael Gold, “How an Explosion (Not Aliens) Turned New York’s Night Sky an Electric Blue”, in The New York Times:

(electrical engineering) A static device that transfers electric energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling; primarily used to transfer energy between different voltage levels, which allows the most appropriate voltages for power generation, transmission and distribution to be chosen separately.

transformator

device that changes the characteristics of AC electricity


biased

en-adj

biased (comparative more biased, superlative most biased)

more biased (comparative)
most biased (superlative)

(electrical engineering) On which an electrical bias is applied.


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


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)


STP

en-noun

STP (countable and uncountable, plural STPs)

shielded twisted pair
shielded twisted pair#English

(electronics) Initialism of shielded twisted pair.


displacement

From French déplacement. Morphologically displace + -ment.

водоизместимост

the quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship

there is no replacement for displacement

(electricity) The transfer of electricity along tubes of induction and thereby polarizing a dielectric.


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 /拆除窃听器

to remove a hidden electronic surveillance device


electrostatic

(electricity) of, relating to, or produced by electrostatics or static electricity

electrostàtic

of, relating to, or producted by electrostatics or static electricity


VFD

(electronics) Initialism of vacuum fluorescent display.

(electronics) Initialism of variable-frequency drive.


surge

From Middle English surgen, possibly from Middle French sourgir, from Old French surgir (“to rise, ride near the shore, arrive, land”), from Old Catalan surgir, from Latin surgō, contraction of surrigō, subrigō (“lift up, raise, erect; intransitive rise, arise, get up, spring up, grow, etc.”, transitive verb), from sub (“from below; up”) + regō (“to stretch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-; see regent.

der

A power surge at that generator created a blackout across the whole district.

When the diesel was being worked full out, the ammeter normally showed about 1,500-1,600 amps, with occasional surges of current at starting or up the steepest gradients to 1,700 or even 1,800 amps.

1959 March, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 132:

(electricity) A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current.


ERA

en-noun

ERA (countable and uncountable, plural ERAs)

(electronics) Initialism of electrically reconfigurable array.


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.


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.


SOA

en-noun

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.


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.


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.


cat's whisker

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


omnidirectional

/ɒmˈnɪdɪˈɹɛk.ʃə.nəl/

The radiation pattern of an omnidirectional antenna looks like a doughnut, with the antenna in the center of the doughnut, as depicted in Figure 17.1.

2004, Harold Davis, Absolute Beginner's Guide to Wi-Fi Wireless Networking, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 227:

(physics, electrical engineering) Having a ring-shaped radiation pattern, with equal radiation in all azimuthal directions.


D

D (countable and uncountable, plural Ds)


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.


Q

Q (countable and uncountable, plural Qs)

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


TC

(electronics) Initialism of time counter.

(electronics) Initialism of thermocouple.


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.


tweeter

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


electrophoresis

electrophoresis (countable and uncountable, plural electrophoreses)

(electricity) The migration of electrically charged molecules through a medium under the influence of an electric field.


gimmick

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


PD

PD (countable and uncountable, plural PDs)

(electronics) Initialism of phase detector.

(electronics) Initialism of power delivery.

partial discharge
partial discharge#English

(electricity) Initialism of partial discharge.


DCH

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


AAL

AAL (countable and uncountable, plural AALs)

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


CPO

charge point operator
charge point operator#English

(automotive, electrical) Initialism of charge point operator.


EC

EC (countable and uncountable, plural ECs)

(electronics) Initialism of edge combiner.


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


DRC

design rule check
design rule check#English

(electronics) Initialism of design rule check.


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.)


BCD

binary-coded decimal
binary-coded decimal#English

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


ACS

ACS (countable and uncountable, plural ACSs or ACSes or ACS's)

ACSs (plural)
ACSes (plural)
ACS's (plural)

(communication, electronics) Initialism of adjacent channel selectivity.


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


NCAP

NCAP (countable and uncountable, plural NCAPs)

(electronics) Initialism of nematic curvilinear aligned phase.


HDL

hardware description language
hardware description language#English

(electronics) Initialism of hardware description language.

DTD

electronics: initialism of Hardware Description Language


ECL

emitter-coupled logic
emitter-coupled logic#English

(electronics) Initialism of emitter-coupled logic.


DDS

DDS (countable and uncountable, plural DDSs or DDSes)

(electronics) Initialism of direct digital synthesis.


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.


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)


LW

LW (countable and uncountable, plural LWs)


OTP

(electronics) Initialism of one-time programmable.


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.


tx

Alternative form: Tx

(uncountable, electronics, telecommunications) Abbreviation of transmission.


Rx

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


rx

(uncountable, electronics, telecommunications) Abbreviation of reception.


TPI

(electronics) Initialism of tracks per inch.


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.


inverter

electrical engineering
electrical engineering

(electrical engineering) A power inverter.


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


electric field

(electricity, physics) A region of space around a charged particle, or between two voltages, which exerts a force on charged objects in its vicinity.


electric potential

en-noun

electric potential (countable and uncountable, plural electric potentials)

(electricity) The potential energy per unit charge at a point in a static electric field.


receptacle

From Middle English receptacle, from Anglo-Norman receptacle and Middle French receptacle (“organ containing a fluid; gathering place; water basin”) (modern French réceptacle), from Latin receptāculum (“animal enclosure, container, place of refuge, receptacle, repository, reservoir, shelter”), from receptāre (“to harbour, to receive, to shelter”) or receptō (“I receive back or again, I recover”), frequentative of recipiō (“I receive; I hold back, I reserve”) (from re- (“back, again”) + capiō (“I hold”)) + -culum (suffix forming nouns from verbs, particularly nouns representing tools and instruments); cognate with Italian recettaculo, ricettaculo, Portuguese receptáculo, Spanish receptáculo.

der

National Electrical Manufacturers Association

A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug is a receptacle[…]. A multiple receptacle is a single device consisting of two or more receptacles[…].

2002, Charles R. Miller, “Section 1: Foundational Provisions”, in Illustrated Guide to the National Electrical Code: Based on the 2002 National Electrical Code, 2nd edition, Albany, N.Y.: Delmar Thomson Learning, →ISBN, unit 2 (Definitions), page 22:

Whether you call them outlets, plug-ins, or receptacles, these important devices represent the point where the rubber meets the road in your home wiring system. From the basic 15-amp, 120-volt duplex receptacle to the burly 50-amp, 240-volt appliance receptacle, the many outlets in your home do pretty much the same thing: transmit power to a load.

2008, “Receptacles”, in The Complete Guide to Wiring (Complete Guide series), 4th rev. edition, Minneapolis, Minn.: Creative Publishing International, →ISBN, page 103:

(electricity, US) A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug (typically by receiving the plug's prongs) to supply portable appliances or equipment.

dugaszalj, dugaszaljzat, konnektoraljzat, csatlakozó aljzat


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.


home run

Spanish: jonrón

Japanese: ホームラン (hōmuran)

Korean: 홈런 (homneon)

Russian: хоум-ра́н (xoum-rán)

(electrical engineering) A connection from a central distribution point or circuit breaker to a destination.


jack plug

(electricity) A type of audio connector.


IF

en-noun

IF (countable and uncountable, plural IFs)

intermediate frequency
intermediate frequency#English

(electronics) Initialism of intermediate frequency.


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.


gender changer

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


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.


amplifier

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


resistivity

resistivity (countable and uncountable, plural resistivities)

electrical resistivity
thermal resistance

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

(electricity) The resistance offered at a particular temperature by an electrical conductor of any given material in a cube of unit length, expressed in ohm-metres (Ωm) in the metric system of measurement.


short circuit

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

(electrical engineering) A usually unintentional connection of low resistance or impedance in a circuit such that excessive and often damaging current flows in it.


printed circuit board

printed circuit board (plural printed circuit boards)

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


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


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.


tant

Note that like 'tants' these are polarized and must be connected to the circuit the right way round, the lead marked 'H' to the positive side of the circuit; failure to do so can lead to a small explosion!

2013, Michael J. Spinks, Microprocessor System Design: A Practical Introduction, page 32:

(slang, electronics) A tantalum capacitor.


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.


relay

From Middle French relai (“reserve pack of hounds”), from relaier (“to exchange tired animals for fresh”); literally, "to leave behind", from Old French relaier (“to leave behind”), from re- + laier (“to leave”), of uncertain origin.

смяна

a new set of anything that can be used to relieve the existing set when worn out

váltó

competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action — see also relay race

(electronics) An electrical actuator that allows a relatively small electrical voltage or current to control a larger voltage or current.


SCADA

(electricity, software) Acronym of Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (electrical network typically containing at least IED's, RTU's, and a master station equipped with an HMI. Used to monitor and control process automation systems, such as those used by electrical and water utilities.)


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


IDE

en-noun

IDE (countable and uncountable, plural IDEs)

(electronics, uncountable) Initialism of integrated drive electronics.


headroom

headroom (countable and uncountable, plural headrooms)

[…] the difference between signal-to-noise ratio and overload reserve (headroom) as well as noise (safety) margin (footroom).

2000, Wolfgang Ahnert, Frank Steffen, Sound Reinforcement Engineering: Fundamentals and Practice, page 177:

(electronics) The ability of a system to reproduce loud sounds free of distortion; dynamic headroom.


dynamic headroom

(electronics) The ability of an amplifier to handle strong signals (or loud sounds) free from distortion.


SPD

SPD (countable and uncountable, plural SPDs)

surge protective device
surge protective device#English

(electronics) Initialism of surge protective device (surge protector).


MW

MW (countable and uncountable, plural MWs)

(electronics) Initialism of medium wave.


converter

time stretch analog-to-digital converter

(electrical engineering) A device that changes voltage or frequency, for example one that converts alternating current to direct current.


grounded

en-adj

grounded (comparative more grounded, superlative most grounded)

more grounded (comparative)
most grounded (superlative)

From Middle English grounded, i-grounded, equivalent to ground + -ed.

(electricity, Canada, US) Of or pertaining to an electrical conductor which is connected to earth; earthed.


SB

en-noun

SB (countable and uncountable, plural SBs)


SSI

SSI (countable and uncountable, plural SSIs)

Small Scale Integration
Small Scale Integration#English

(electronics) Initialism of Small Scale Integration.


PFC

power factor correction
power factor correction#English

(electrical engineering) Initialism of power factor correction.


DIP

DIP (countable and uncountable, plural DIPs)

dual in-line package
w:dual in-line package

(electronics) Acronym of dual in-line package.


HF

(electronics) Initialism of high frequency.


WSS

Wavelength Selective Switching
w:Wavelength Selective Switching

(electronics) Initialism of Wavelength Selective Switching.


WSS

Widescreen signaling
w:Widescreen signaling

(electronics) Initialism of Widescreen signaling.


anticathode

(electronics) The target at which electrons from the cathode in a CRT or x-ray tube are directed.

antykatoda

the target at which electrons from the cathode in a CRT or x-ray tube are directed


Coulomb's law

(electricity) the fundamental law of electrostatics - the force between two point charges is proportional to the product of their charges, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them


Coulomb's constant

(electricity) the constant of proportionality in the equation of Coulomb's law; numerical value depends on the units used


Coulomb force

(electricity) The electrostatic force between two charges, as described by Coulomb's law.


SSB

SSB (countable and uncountable, plural SSBs)

(electronics, communication) Initialism of single sideband, a type of radio emission.


BB

BB (countable and uncountable, plural BBs)


EFF

(Internet, electronics, politics) Initialism of Electronic Frontier Foundation.


trigger

Originally tricker, from Dutch trekker (“pull”, noun, as in drawer-pull, bell-pull), from Dutch trekken (“to drag, draw, pull”).

laukaisin

music: electronic transducer allowing a percussion instrument to control an electronic device

(electronics) A pulse in an electronic circuit that initiates some component.


trigger

en-verb

trigger (third-person singular simple present triggers, present participle triggering, simple past and past participle triggered)

triggers (present singular third-person)
triggering (participle present)
triggered (participle past)
triggered (past)

→ German: triggern

Sodium nitrite (750 ppm) was added after the alarm triggered at three hours, and corrosion did not occur for over eight hours.

1997, Mill Operators' Conference, page 182:

(intransitive, especially electronics) To activate; to become active.

тригерирам

(intransitive, especially electronics) to activate; to become active

élesít

to make (e.g. an article) publicly available online


DPLL

phase-locked loop
phase-locked loop#English

(electronics) Initialism of digital phase-locked loop.


ADPLL

(electronics) Initialism of all-digital phase locked loop.


ACI

(electronics) adjacent channel interference.


ACPR

(electronics) Initialism of adjacent channel power ratio.


PAE

power added efficiency
power added efficiency#English

(electronics) Initialism of power added efficiency.


PAM

en-noun

PAM (countable and uncountable, plural PAMs)

(electronics) Initialism of power amplitude modulation.


DPRFP

(electronics) Initialism of direct Polar RF Power.

(electronics) Initialism of Direct Polar Radio Frequency Power.


LDO

(electronics) Initialism of low drop out.


TWB

(electronics) Initialism of three-wire bus.


FEM

FEM (countable and uncountable, plural FEMs)

(electronics) Initialism of front end module.


SMD

SMD (countable and uncountable, plural SMDs)

surface-mount(ed) device
Surface-mount device#English

(electronics, countable) Initialism of surface-mount(ed) device.


SMD

(electronics) Initialism of solder mask defined.


SMPS

(electronics) Initialism of switching mode power supply.


(electronics) Initialism of Third Generation Partnership Project.


ARF

(electronics) Initialism of analog radio frequency.


(electronics) Asynchronous Transfer Mode Adaption Layer Type 2, ATM Adaption Layer Type 2.


(electronics) Asynchronous Transfer Mode Adaption Layer Type 5, ATM Adaption Layer Type 5.


LO

local oscillator
local oscillator#English

(electronics) Initialism of local oscillator.


DLL

(electronics) Initialism of delay-locked loop.


PFD

(electronics) Initialism of phase-frequency detector.


CMFB

(electronics) Initialism of common mode feedback.


MOS

(electronics) Initialism of metal oxide semiconductor.


TDC

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


VDL

(electronics) Initialism of vernier delay line.

(electronics) Initialism of VHF Data Link.


coaxial cable

(electronics, telecommunications) A transmission line, consisting of a conducting wire surrounded by an insulated spacer, surrounded by a cylindrical conducting sheath; used to carry high frequency signals such as TV.


ACCH

(electronics) Initialism of associated control channel.


ACIR

(electronics) Initialism of adjacent channel interference ratio.


HCLK

(electronics) Acronym of high-speed clock.


coupling

coupling (countable and uncountable, plural couplings)

From Middle English couplynge; equivalent to couple + -ing.

(electronics) A connection between two electronic circuits such that a signal can pass between them.

耦合

(electronics) connection between two electronic circuits such that a signal can pass between them


PVT

PVT (countable and uncountable, plural PVTs)

(electronics) Initialism of pressure, volume, temperature.


NTIDS

named by the first inventor, R.Nutt in 1968, formerly named "Digital Time Intervall Meter"

(electronics) Initialism of Nutt time-interval digitizer.


VTID

(electronics) Initialism of vernier time-interval digitizer.


RMS

RMS (countable and uncountable, plural RMSes)

root mean square
root mean square#English

(electronics, statistics) Initialism of root mean square.


ACLR

(electronics) Initialism of adjacent channel leakage power ratio.


ISF

(electronics) Initialism of Impulse Sensitivity Function.


LNA

(electronics) Initialism of low noise amplifier.


detection

detection (countable and uncountable, plural detections)

→ German: Detektion

Learned borrowing from Latin dētēctiōnem. By surface analysis, detect + -ion.

lbor

(electrical engineering) The act or process of finding or detecting an electrical signal in a carrier wave.


RBW

(electronics) Abbreviation of resolution bandwidth.


ripple

(electronics) A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.


SOC

en-noun

SOC (countable and uncountable, plural SOCs)

(electronics) Initialism of system on a chip.

(electricity) Abbreviation of state of charge.


EVM

error vector magnitude
w:error vector magnitude

(electronics) Initialism of error vector magnitude.


HS-DSCH

(communication, electronics) High Speed Downlink Shared Channel (in UMTS).


HS-PDSCH

(communication, electronics) Initialism of High Speed Physical Downlink Shared Channel (in UMTS).


HS-SCCH

(communication, electronics) Initialism of High Speed Shared Control Channel (in UMTS).


CQI

(communication, electronics, initialism) Channel quality indicator.


DPDCH

(communication, electronics) Initialism of dedicated physical data channel.


DPCCH

(communication, electronics) Abbreviation of dedicated physical control channel.


DPCH

(communication, electronics) Acronym of dedicated physical channel.


FDR

FDR (countable and uncountable, plural FDRs)

(communication, electronics) Initialism of false transmit format detection ratio (in UMTS).


HSUPA

High Speed Uplink Packet Access
w:High Speed Uplink Packet Access

(communication, electronics) Initialism of High Speed Uplink Packet Access (in UMTS).


HSCSD

Highspeed Circuit Switched Data
Highspeed Circuit Switched Data#English

(communication, electronics) Initialism of Highspeed Circuit Switched Data (2.5G).


pigtail

(electrical engineering) A short length of twisted electrical wire.


ZOH

(electronics) Initialism of zero-order hold.


FOH

first-order hold
first-order hold#English

(electronics) Initialism of first-order hold.


MOT

(electronics) microwave oven transformer


CORDIC

(electronics) Acronym of coordinate rotation digital computer.


laminar

In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers.

(electronics) In the form of thin flat electronic circuits, usually flexible


supercharge

en-verb

supercharge (third-person singular simple present supercharges, present participle supercharging, simple past and past participle supercharged)

supercharges (present singular third-person)
supercharging (participle present)
supercharged (participle past)
supercharged (past)

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(electronics, electrics) To recharge a battery cell/pack at an extremely rapid pace.


supercharge

(electrics, electronics) An instance of supercharging.


supercharger

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компресор

inlet air compressor for an internal combustion engine

(electrics, electronics) A device that can rapidly recharge a battery cell/pack.


crosstalk

en-noun

crosstalk (countable and uncountable, plural crosstalks)

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From cross- + talk.
Usage in reference to the Chinese comedic performance is probably a loose calque from Chinese 相聲／相声 (xiàngsheng).

(electronics) Undesirable signals from a neighbouring transmission circuit; undesired coupling between circuits.

串擾 /串扰

undesirable signals from a neighbouring transmission circuit (electronics)


flutter

flutter (countable and uncountable, plural flutters)

From Middle English floteren, from Old English floterian, flotorian (“to float about, flutter”), from Proto-Germanic *flutrōną, frequentative of Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”), equivalent to float + -er (frequentative suffix). Cognate with West Frisian flodderje (“to flutter, beat”), Dutch flodderen (“to flutter, wave”), Low German fluttern, fluddern (“to flutter”), German flittern (“to sparkle, glitter”). More at float.

cog

Coordinate term: wow

(audio, electronics) The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.


computer chip

(electronics) An integrated circuit, typically installed in a personal computer or other electronic devices.


birdie

(electronics) An electromagnetic signal generated from within an electronic device.


nacelle

PIE word
 *néh₂us
Borrowed from French nacelle (“rowing boat, skiff; gondola (of a hot-air balloon, etc.); structure on an aircraft to house an engine”), Middle French nacelle (“rowing boat, skiff”), from Old French nacele, from Late Latin naucella, nāvicella (“small boat or ship”), from Latin nāvis (“a ship”) (from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“a boat”)) + -ella (diminutive suffix).
Cognates
* Anglo-Norman naucele, naucle (“small boat”)
* Late Latin nacella (“small boat”)

bor

(electrical engineering) The part between the rotor and tower of a wind turbine.

electrical engineering
electrical engineering


delta connection

en-noun

delta connection (plural delta connections)

(electricity) A type of three-phase connection.


immittance

immittance (countable and uncountable, plural immittances)

(physics, electronics) Either the impedance or the admittance of an electrical network, considered as alternatives.


daisy chain

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(electrical engineering) Placing several electrical or electronic devices in series by either their power connections or their data connections or both.


daisy chain

en-verb

daisy chain (third-person singular simple present daisy chains, present participle daisy chaining, simple past and past participle daisy chained)

daisy chains (present singular third-person)
daisy chaining (participle present)
daisy chained (participle past)
daisy chained (past)

We daisy chained several USB hubs to see if we could reach the far side of the room.

(electronics) To connect a network or other peripheral in sequence from one node to another through the connected devices.

connecter en série

(electronics) to connect in sequence from one node to another


autotransformer

One of the principal features of the ordinary configurations of the transformer [...] is the electrical isolation that exists between the primary and secondary windings. [...] Whenever large transformation ratios are involved, safety demands that ordinary transformers be used. However, in instances where the transformation ratio is close to unity (which minimizes the hazard), a transformer employing a single tapped winding may be used with notable advantages.
[...] This arrangement is called the autotransformer.

1990, Vincent Del Toro, chapter 2, in Basic Electric Machines, →ISBN, page 89:

(electrical engineering) A transformer with a single winding, its output being taken from taps.


quarter-phase

(electricity) Differing in phase by a quarter of a cycle; two-phase.


feedback

en-noun

feedback (usually uncountable, plural feedbacks)

→ German: Feedback

→ Japanese: フィードバック (fīdobakku)

→ Korean: 피드백 (pideubaek)

→ Polish: feedback

→ Portuguese: feedback

→ Russian: фидбэ́к (fidbɛ́k)

→ Spanish: feedback, → retroalimentación (calque)

The fact that similar cortical abnormalities can be experimentally induced in monkeys has allowed Michael Merzenich and his colleagues in San Francisco to explore an animal model of focal dystonia, and to demonstrate the abnormal feedback in the sensory loop and the motor misfirings that, once started, grow relentlessly worse.

2007, Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain:

(electronics, cybernetics, control theory) The part of an output signal that is looped back into the input to control or modify a system.

cybernetics; control theory; cybernetics; control theory

հետադարձ կապ

signal that is looped back to control a system within itself


clock out

en-verb

clock out (third-person singular simple present clocks out, present participle clocking out, simple past and past participle clocked out)

clocks out (present singular third-person)
clocking out (participle present)
clocked out (participle past)
clocked out (past)

fichar / ponchar / marcar tarjeta de salida / al salir

(transitive, intransitive, electronics) To transmit individual bits of data under the control of a clock.


extension cord

(electronics, US) An electrical cord with a plug one end, and a single socket or a multi-port socket at the other end, used for powering one or more devices at a distance, too far from the wall outlet to be reached by the normal cords of the device or devices.


XOR

(electrical engineering) A logic gate that implements "exclusive or".


ESS

electronic switching system
electronic switching system#English

(electronics) Initialism of electronic switching system.

energy storage system
energy storage system#English

(electrical) Abbreviation of energy storage system.


three-way switch

en-noun

three-way switch (plural three-way switches)

Named after its three electrical connections, as opposed to the two connections of a normal light switch.

(US, electricity) A type of light switch that can be arranged in pairs to control lights from two locations, as at either end of a stairway or long hallway; a double-throw switch. (British): two-way switch.


repeater

[…] Colonel Moen was trying to make sense of the radio nets, which had never really been operational let alone secure; our numerous outposts were cobbled together with hand-held Motorolas and too few repeater stations […]

2009, Julius Mutwol, Peace Agreements and Civil Wars in Africa, →ISBN, page 190:

(electronics) An electronic device that receives a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power.

повторител

electronics: an electronic device that received a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or power


switchboard

(electrical engineering) A large piece of power-distribution equipment that directs electricity to multiple loads.


reactive

en-adj

reactive (comparative more reactive, superlative most reactive)

more reactive (comparative)
most reactive (superlative)

(electronics) Characterized by induction or capacitance rather than resistance.


pull-up

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jellybean

These were mainly used to implement glue logic, and it was possible to replace fifty or more jellybean devices with a single ASIC.

2008, Clive Maxfield, Bebop to the Boolean Boogie:

(slang, electronics, programming) of an electronic component, or software algorithm: generic, standard, vanilla, easy to find


breakout

breakout box; breakout cable

(electronics, attributive) Splitting a signal into several signals.


latency

en-noun

latency (countable and uncountable, plural latencies)

lag

not physics- or electronic gaming-related

(electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.


limiter

(electronics) A circuit that allows signals below a specified input threshold to pass unaffected while attenuating the peaks of stronger signals.


interlace

interlace (countable and uncountable, plural interlaces)

From Middle English entrelacen, from Anglo-Norman entrelacer, from Old French inter- + lacer (“weave”).

(electronics) A technique of improving the picture quality of a video signal primarily on CRT devices without consuming extra bandwidth.


teaser

→ German: Teaser

(electrical) A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining their magnetism when the main circuit is open.


I/O

In addition to the synchronous blocking I/O explored in the last two chapters, NIO also supports nonblocking I/O.

It reduces I/O latency, for selected eligible I/Os, to the point that z/OS no longer needs to undispatch the running task.

2021, Peter Kimmel, Sherri Brunson, Lisa Martinez, IBM DS8900F Performance Best Practices and Monitoring (page 22)

(computing, electrical engineering) Abbreviation of input/output.


neper

From Joannes Neper, the Latinized name of John Napier, a Scottish mathematician.

Values of b, the amplitude attenuation constant, are given for various materials in Table 1.1. Having dimensions of [length]⁻¹, it is usually measured in nepers per centimetre (Np cm⁻¹).

1994, T. G. Leighton, The Acoustic Bubble, page 28:

The unit of α is nepers per meter. It can be easily seen that if a line has an attenuation constant of 1 neper/m, a unit amplitude voltage wave will reduce to e⁻¹ over a distance of 1 meter.

2006, R. K. Shevgaonkar, Electromagnetic Waves, page 15:

The attenuation constant for the phantom muscle tissue is αₘ = 10.0 nepers/m.

2008, Alan J. Fenn, Adaptive Phased Array Thermotherapy for Cancer, page 105:

(electronics) A non-SI unit of the attenuation (or sometimes gain) of field and power quantities such as electronic signals; the natural logarithm of a ratio, with 1 Np (a ratio of 2.718:1) being equivalent to 8.686 dB.


HDR

HDR (countable and uncountable, plural HDRs)

(electronics) Initialism of hard disk/hard drive recorder. (a recording device that records onto a hard disk drive)


varactor

(electronics) A solid-state diode whose capacitance varies with the applied voltage.


SMT

SMT (countable and uncountable, plural SMTs)

Coordinate term: THT

surface-mount technology
surface-mount technology#English

(electronics) Initialism of surface-mount technology.


window detector

window detector (plural window detectors)

(electronics) A special type of comparator which provides an indication of whether the input voltage is within a specified range.


keepalive

(electronics, communication) A short message sent by one device to another to check that the link between the two is operating, or to prevent this link from being broken due to inactivity.


tapping

tapping (countable and uncountable, plural tappings)

The essential feature is that two adjacent transformer tappings are connected to the load simultaneously, each connection having a self-excited transductor in series; […].

1962 June, “Talking of Trains: Notable new locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 373:

(electrical engineering) A connection made to some point between the end terminals of a transformer coil or other component.


lithium ion battery

lithium ion battery (plural lithium ion batteries)

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


RTL

(electronics) Initialism of register-transfer level.


phase-locked loop

phase-locked loop (plural phase-locked loops)

(electronics) an electronic circuit used to lock an oscillator in phase with an arbitrary input signal


photodiode

(electronics) A semiconductor two-terminal component whose electrical characteristics are light-sensitive.


cold-cathode

(electronics) Alternative form of cold cathode


potentiometer

(electronics) A user-adjustable three-terminal variable resistor that can be used as a voltage divider.


SDR

SDR (countable and uncountable, plural SDRs)

single data rate
single data rate#English

(computing, electronics) Initialism of single data rate.


bucket brigade

(electronics) A discrete-time analogue delay line that moves a signal along a line of capacitors, one step at each clock cycle.

Eimerkettenspeicher

electronics: discrete-time analogue delay line


blip

Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1

When the blip began to move up the oscilloscope screen, they followed again.

1984 August, Frederick [McCarthy] Forsyth, The Fourth Protocol, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN:

At 6:45 pm, the chief officer saw a blip on the radar, approximately seven nautical miles away.

2004, Asaf Degani, “The Grounding of the Royal Majesty”, in Taming HAL: Designing Interfaces beyond 2001, New York, N.Y., Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 111:

(electronics) A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.


polarity

polarity (countable and uncountable, plural polarities)

polaritat

chemistry: dipole-dipole intermolecular force

(electricity) A measure of the electrical potential at the ends of a circuit. ᵂᵖ


breadboard

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From bread + board.
Regarding definition 3: the etymology is either that electric circuits used to be prototyped on actual bread boards (definition 1) populated with nails, or that solder breadboards have lots of holes and are usually brown (they visually resemble a slice of bread), or a merging of the two. The etymology is less obvious today given the popularity of solderless breadboards.

If you are following a book like Starting Electronics, however, a breadboard is even more useful. […] Differences lie between breadboards in the spacings and the positionings of the holes, and the number of holes in each group.

2011 August 2, Keith Brindley, Starting Electronics, page 18:

(electronics) A device used to build a (usually temporary) prototype of an electronic circuit and for experimenting with circuit designs. Both solder and solderless versions are available; the solderless type are easily reusable.


CDR

CDR (countable and uncountable, plural CDRs)

Coordinate term: VDR

current divider rule
current divider rule#English

current division rule
current division rule#English

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


tracking

tracking (countable and uncountable, plural trackings)

(electricity) The synchronization of two or more signals.

(electricity) The formation of conductive paths on the surface of an insulating material due to electrical discharges.


tethered

Many mobile phones are equipped with software to offer tethered Internet access.

(computing, electronics) connected (especially a mobile phone to a computer, for use as a wireless modem)


clipper

Dutch: (nautical) klipper, klipperaak m or f

From Middle English clipper, equivalent to clip (“cut, shorten”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). The type of sailing ship is probably also from clip, in the sense of “move or run rapidly”. Perhaps influenced by Middle Dutch klepper (“swift horse”), from kleppen (“to clap”), which is onomatopoeic.

suffix

er<id:agent noun><pos:suffix forming agent nouns>

(electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.


heterojunction

(electronics) Any junction between two different semiconductors; functions as a diode


DRAM

en-noun

DRAM (countable and uncountable, plural DRAMs)

dynamic random access memory
dynamic random access memory#English

(electronics) Initialism of dynamic random access memory.


SRAM

SRAM (countable and uncountable, plural SRAMs)

Static random access memory
static random access memory

(electronics) Static random access memory.

random access memory
random access memory

(electronics) Shadow random access memory.


MLC

multi-level cell
multi-level cell#English

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


BMS

BMS (countable and uncountable, plural BMSes or BMSs)

(electronics) Initialism of battery management system.


solid-state

(electronics, of an electronic component) Based upon semiconductors, as distinct from older technologies such as vacuum tubes.


photoresistor

(electronics) An electronic component whose resistance is inversely proportional to the intensity of incident light.


aligner

(electronics) A system that produces integrated circuits by precision photolithography.


photothyristor

(electronics) A light-activated silicon controlled rectifier.


phototransistor

(electronics) Any semiconductor device whose electrical characteristics are light-sensitive.


alternator

(electrical engineering) An electric generator which produces alternating current through mechanical means.

alternadore

an electric generator which produces alternating current


emitter

(electronics) One terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).


space charge

(electricity) The localized excess electric charge in a specific volume; especially such a negative charge


implicant

(electrical engineering) On a Karnaugh map: a set of ones (whose quantity is a power of two) which are related by adjacency (i.e., the set is connected, if the Karnaugh map is considered to be a graph which "wraps around" its edges, like a torus; and all elements of the subgraph induced by the set have the same degree). Equivalently, in terms of Boolean algebra, a product term which, when true, always implies that the given Boolean function is true.


vacuum tube

(electronics) A type of electron tube that controls electron current through vacuum between electrodes within a sealed container, usually of glass or metal and often designed to be easily installed in and removed from the equipment in which it is used.


inverting function

inverting function (plural inverting functions)

(electronics) An electronic logic circuit which inverts the phase of a signal


APG

Austrian Power Grid
w:de:Austrian Power Grid

(electricity) Abbreviation of Austrian Power Grid.


LSI

LSI (countable and uncountable, plural LSIs)

large scale integration
large scale integration#English

(electronics) Initialism of large scale integration.


doped

en-adj

doped (comparative more doped, superlative most doped)

more doped (comparative)
most doped (superlative)

The silicon was doped with boron to make a p-type semiconductor.

(electronics) Describing a semiconductor that has had small amounts of elements added to create charge carriers.


cut-out

The automatic magnetic cut out, opens the circuit between battery and generator when the generator is running slow or engine is stopped, also referred to as the "vibrator type" of cut out.

1916, A[ndrew] L[ee] Dyke, “Instruction No. 27. The Electric Generator: Principle. Construction. Operation. Regulation”, in Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia. … Containing 366 Charts with a Dictionary and Index: Treating on the Construction, Operation and Repairing of Automobiles and Gasoline Engines, 5th rev. and enlarged edition, St. Louis, Mo.: A. L. Dyke, →OCLC, figure 2 caption, page 338:

The semiconductor also enhances regulation of the charging system, the older dynamo being controlled by two or three relay-like devices: 1. a cut-out that disconnects the dynamo from the battery when the generated voltage drops below that of the battery, as is the case when the engine is not running.

2009, Rick Astley, “Charging System”, in Classic British Car Electrical Systems: Your Guide to Understanding, Repairing and Improving the Electrical Components (The Essential Manual), Dorchester, Dorset: Veloce Publishing, →ISBN, page 57:

[T]he cut-out of a control interrupts or opens the electric circuit. The cut-in closes the electric circuit, and the differential is the difference between the cut-in and the cut-out points. […] As you can see, the differential controls the pressure or temperature difference between the cut-in and cut-out settings.

2016, John A. Tomczyk, Eugene Silberstein, William C. Whitman, William M. Johnson, “Automatic Control Components and Applications”, in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technology, 8th edition, Boston, Mass.: Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 355:

(electronics) Any of several devices that halt the flow of a current, especially an electric current; a trip-switch or trip.

бушон

аny of several devices that halts the flow of a current


PMT

en-noun

PMT (countable and uncountable, plural PMTs)

photomultiplier tube
photomultiplier tube#English

(countable, electronics) Abbreviation of photomultiplier tube.


sticky bit

(electronics) A fault in a digital circuit, where a signal does not change as expected, but remains always in one state.


interconnect

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[ˌɪɾ̃ɚ.kəˈnɛkt]

These interconnects are suitable for any kind of point-to-point on-chip communication, such as in a SoC to connect nearby or far away system blocks and in a NoC between two routers.

2011, Ethiopia Enideg Nigussie, Variation Tolerant On-Chip Interconnects, page 118:


clocked

en-adj

clocked (comparative more clocked, superlative most clocked)

more clocked (comparative)
most clocked (superlative)

(electronics) Electronically running at a particular rate; governed by a repetitive time signal.


NOC

en-noun

NOC (countable and uncountable, plural NOCs)

network on a chip
network on a chip#English

(electronics) Initialism of network on a chip.


tripler

A frequency tripler can be designed with two multipliers and a summing amplifier without any additional filter by using any one of the following trignometric identities: […]

2006, L.K. Maheshwari, M.M.S. Anand, Analog Electronics, page 259:

frequency multiplier
frequency multiplier

(electronics) The simplest form of frequency multiplier, that has an output frequency of three times the value of the input frequency.


one-shot

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The monostable multivibrator, or one-shot, is designed to generate controllable-duration pulses when triggered by the rising or falling edge of a trigger clock.

1980, Bruce A. Artwick, Microcomputer interfacing, page 263:

(electronics) A monostable multivibrator.


digital still camera

digital still camera (plural digital still cameras)

(electronics) A digital camera. Abbreviated DSC.


synchronizer

One who or that which synchronizes.
(electronics) A kind of arbiter.

One who or that which synchronizes.
A kind of arbiter.


ESR

equivalent series resistance
w:equivalent series resistance

(electronics) Initialism of equivalent series resistance.


hardwired

en-adj

hardwired (comparative more hardwired, superlative most hardwired)

more hardwired (comparative)
most hardwired (superlative)

(electronics) Designed to perform a specific task.


SDSL

(electronics) symmetric digital subscriber line


gating

en-noun

gating (countable and uncountable, plural gatings)

(electronics, signal processing) The control of the flow of signals based on certain conditions or criteria.


electron tube

(electricity) Any of several electronic devices that control electron current through vacuum, gas or vapor between electrodes within a sealed container, usually of glass or metal and often designed to be easily installed in and removed from the equipment in which it is used.


immunisation

immunisation (countable and uncountable, plural immunisations)

From French immunisation. Equivalent to immunise + -ation or immune + -isation.

"Secondly, we have to find more cost-effective ways of electrifying. And we've had a real breakthrough in the last couple of years in terms of bridge clearances and immunisation, meaning we've been able to take hundreds of millions of pounds off the cost of electrification.

2020 May 20, Andrew Haines talks to Stefanie Foster, “Repurpose rail for the 2020s”, in Rail, page 33:

electrical engineering
electrical engineering

(rail transport, electrical engineering) The process of immunising signalling and traction power supplies so they don't interfere with each other.


circuit breaker

circuit breaker (plural circuit breakers)

From the evidence of witnesses and of the recorded passing times, including the time at which the circuit breakers were tripped when the wires were brought down, the train was travelling at a speed of not less than 70 m.p.h.

1961 November, “Talking of Trains: Derailment near Holmes Chapel”, in Trains Illustrated, page 652:

Typically traction packages monitor the supply frequency and if it strays outside pre-set limits open the circuit breaker between the pantograph and the transformer to shut off the power.

2019 October, Roger Ford, “Power failure highlights specification confusion”, in Modern Railways, page 27:

(electricity) An electrical switch capable of opening and closing an electrical circuit in all operating conditions, including fault situations.

overcurrent protective device
overcurrent protective device

(electricity) More specifically, a circuit breaker that automatically breaks overcurrent conditions; a type of overcurrent protective device.

interruttore magnetotermico

specific type of overcurrent protective device


grounding

grounding (countable and uncountable, plural groundings)

(electrical engineering) The interconnecting metal chassis/frame of a device, appliance, machine, or metal raceway via a designated conductor to earth at the service panel. It may be bare or covered, and does not carry current in normal operation.

maadoitus

electrical engineering: interconnection of metal chassis of a device to earth


interrupting time

interrupting time (countable and uncountable, plural interrupting times)

(electricity, of a circuit breaker) The time between the trip circuit energization and power arc interruption.


power factor

The power factor is of interest because it is a measure of the power which does useful work.

(electrical, engineering) The ratio of the actual power to the apparent power in an alternating current power system; specifically, the cosine of the phase angle between the voltage and the current.


single-phasing

(electrical engineering) The abnormal operation of a three-phase machine when its supply is changed by the accidental opening of one conductor.


polyphase circuit

polyphase circuit (plural polyphase circuits)

(electrical) A group of alternating current circuits having two or more interrelated voltages, usually of equal amplitudes, phase differences, and periods, etc; if a neutral conductor exists, the voltages referenced to the neutral are equal in amplitude and phase; the most common version is that of 3-phase, equal in amplitude with phases 120 degrees apart.


switcher

(electronics) A switchmode power supply.


no-load

(electricity) Not supplying power; open-circuited.


Zener diode

From Clarence Zener, American physicist.

(electronics) A semiconductor junction device through which current flows normally in the forward direction, and in the reverse direction if a large voltage is applied.


VOC

(electronics, physics) V_(OC) — Initialism of open-circuit voltage.


microcircuit

The anti-gay religious, which had threatened an initiative, with microcircuit swiftness gathered 50,000 and 27,000 signatures, respectively, and suspended the County and San Jose ordinances before they could go into effect.

1974 February 2, Edward Sebesta, “Launching the Gay '80s: Gay Rights Under Siege In Santa Clara County”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 5:

(electronics) An electronic device, usually fabricated by photolithography, that is very small and implements several components or their equivalent; an integrated circuit.


VHSIC

"The United States Department of Defense launched the VHSIC program in 1980 as a joint tri-service (Army/Navy/Air Force) program. The program led to advances in integrated circuit materials, lithography, packaging, testing, and algorithms, and created numerous computer-aided design tools. A well-known part of the program's contribution is VHDL, a hardware description language. The program also redirected the military's interest in GaAs ICs back toward the commercial mainstream of CMOS circuits."

integrated circuit
integrated circuit#English

(electronics, hardware) Abbreviation of very high speed integrated circuit.


BSC

(computing, electronics) Initialism of Basic Spacing between Centers: Used in integrated circuits to specify package mechanical dimensions. This is a theoretical true position dimension and has no tolerance.


syntonize

en-verb

syntonize (third-person singular simple present syntonizes, present participle syntonizing, simple past and past participle syntonized)

syntonizes (present singular third-person)
syntonizing (participle present)
syntonized (participle past)
syntonized (past)

(electronics) To adjust two electronic circuits or devices to operate on the same frequency.


syntonization

(electronics) The adjustment of two electronic circuits or devices so as to operate at the same frequency.


debounce

debounce (third-person singular simple present debounces, present participle debouncing, simple past and past participle debounced)

debounces (present singular third-person)
debouncing (participle present)
debounced (participle past)
debounced (past)

(electronics) To remove the small ripple of current that forms when a mechanical switch is pushed in an electrical circuit and makes a series of short contacts.

entprellen

electronics: to remove the small ripple of current


flashcard

/ˈflæʃˌkɑɹd/

(electronics) A solid-state digital memory storage format, commonly found on computers, digital cameras and cellphones.


demultiplexer

(computing, electronics) A device or piece of software used to separate signals that were previously combined using a multiplexer.


feed-through

(electronics, engineering) A hermetically sealed connection between two volumes.


barretter

→ Polish: bareter

Likely from Old French bareter (“to exchange”), or barateor (“exchanger”). Compare barrator


combinational circuit

en-noun

combinational circuit (plural combinational circuits)

For a combinational circuit, the input (Shannon) entropy is the joint entropy of its input bits, the output entropy is the joint entropy of its output bits, and the output entropy is always less than or equal to the input entropy, even if the quantity of output bits is larger than the quantity of input bits.

(electronics) A switching circuit whose output is determined solely by some combination of its concurrent inputs.


bioelectronics

(biology, electronics) The application of electronics in the field of biology

(biology, electronics) The proposed construction of electronic-like circuits from proteins or other biological macromolecules


biotelemetry

(biology, electronics) The use of telemetry to monitor, measure and record physiological data of an organism


anchor pylon

(electronics) A pylon that forms the endpoint of a high-power transmission line and uses horizontal insulators, necessary when interfacing with other modes of power transmission and, due to the inflexibility of the conductors, when significantly altering the direction of the pylon chain.


syntony

syntony (usually uncountable, plural syntonies)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek συντονία (suntonía).

bor+

In practice, perfectly accurate syntony is not necessary, but some variation in a wave length may be permitted and good results at the receiver will still be attained.

1908, United States Congressional Serial Set, page 23:

(electronics) A condition in which two oscillators have the same resonant frequency.


astable

(electronics) Having multiple states, none of which is stable.