This page gathers the 1,081 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Electrical engineering”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 1 of 11: from “*69” to “boom”.
- *69 verb To use the last-call return service
- -or suffix Appended to the names of members of classes of components, especially those that have an extensive property name of the same root suffixed…
- 0 noun The off or low bit state.
- 1-976 adj Of telephone numbers dialed in North America, having an additional charge assessed to the caller, part of which is returned to the owner of…
- A.C. noun alternating current
- aberration noun A defect in an image produced by an optical or electrostatic lens system.
- abfarad noun A unit of capacitance equal to one billion (10⁹) farads, used in the centimeter-gram-second system of units
- absorption noun The retaining of electrical energy for a short time after it has been introduced to the dielectric.
- abvolt noun A unit of electrical potential equal to one hundred millionth of a volt (10⁻⁸ volts), used in the centimeter-gram-second system of units.
- abwatt noun A unit of electrical power equal to one ten-millionth of a watt (10⁻⁷ watts), used in the centimeter-gram-second system of units.
- ac noun Alternative letter-case form of AC (“alternating current”).
- acknowledgment noun A response (ACK) sent by a receiver to indicate successful receipt of a transmission (See Wikipedia article on transmission).
- acoustic coupler noun A terminal device used to link data terminals and radio sets with the telephone network.
- acquisition time noun The amount of time required for a GPS receiver to acquire a satellite signal in order to determine the initial position.
- ACRR noun adjacent-channel rejection ratio; the resulting measurement of comparing signal strength with a similar signal on another frequency if they…
- active noun Any component that is not passive. See Passivity (engineering).
- active noise control noun Technology that uses microphones to detect unwanted sound waves and then generates an opposite, "anti-noise" sound wave (180 degrees out of…
- actuator noun A relay that controls the flow of electricity.
- address message noun a message sent in the forward direction that contains (a) address information, (b) the signaling information required to route and connect…
- air cell noun An electrochemical cell that uses air as a terminal, such as the metal-air electrochemical cell.
- ALD noun Initialism of atomic layer deposition.
- aligner noun A system that produces integrated circuits by precision photolithography.
- all-figure number noun A telephone number consisting purely of digits, introduced in the 1960s to replace numbers that began with an alphabetic code for the…
- alligator clip noun A spring-loaded metal clip, usually attached to a wire and used to create a temporary electrical connection.
- amplification noun Gain.
- amplifier noun An appliance or circuit that increases the strength of a weak electrical signal without changing the other characteristics of the signal.
- anchor pylon noun A pylon that forms the endpoint of a high-power transmission line and uses horizontal insulators, necessary when interfacing with other…
- android noun A mobile phone running on Android OS.
- anode noun An electrode, of a cell or other electrically polarized device, through which a positive current of electricity flows inwards (and thus…
- anticathode noun The target at which electrons from the cathode in a CRT or x-ray tube are directed.
- anticoherer noun A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading…
- antilogue adj of or pertaining to the magnetic pole that becomes negative as its temperature increases and positive as its temperature decreases
- antimetric adj The converse of symmetric in electrical network theory, especially filter theory. A network where the input and output image impedances are…
- antimetry noun A property of an electrical network where the normalised impedance of one port is the reciprocal of another.
- antitracking adj Resistant to the electrical phenomenon of tracking.
- app noun An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device.
- arbiter noun A component in circuitry that allocates scarce resources.
- arc fault noun An undesired and uncontrolled electric arc from one conductor through the air (or other gas) to a conductor at ground potential or a…
- arc-fault circuit interrupter noun A type of circuit breaker that detects signs of potentially-dangerous arcing on downstream wiring and shuts off power to the affected…
- arch noun An architecture; a computer architecture or instruction set architecture.
- arcover noun The unwanted arcing of electricity from one component to another, caused for example by the presence of contaminants.
- assert verb To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.
- astable adj Having multiple states, none of which is stable.
- ATM noun Initialism of asynchronous transfer mode.
- attack time noun The time between the instant that a signal at the input of a device or circuit exceeds the activation threshold of the device or circuit…
- attenuate verb To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.
- audimeter noun Electronic device that, installed in a sample of households, automatically records the television channel and consumption of the family or…
- autocorrelator noun A device that modifies a signal with a delayed copy of itself in order to detect any periodic signal hidden in the noise
- autofocus noun A feature of some cameras and other optical systems that allows a correct focus on the subject to be obtained automatically
- automanual adj Being or relating to a system of telephony that combines automatic and manual features, such that the caller initially communicates with an…
- autopolarity noun Automatic interchanging of connections to a digital meter when polarity is wrong; a minus sign appears ahead of the value on the digital…
- autozeroing noun A sampling technique that measures an offset from zero and later compensates by subtracting the difference.
- away message noun An automated notification sent in response to incoming communications when the recipient is unavailable.
- axial lead noun An electrical component with two leads (wires) extending out in opposite directions (along a single axis).
- Baby Bell noun Any of the Regional Bell Operating Companies resulting from the division of AT&T Corporation into a number of smaller companies in the…
- backgate noun A gate that supplies a negative voltage.
- backplane noun A circuit board that connects several connectors in parallel to each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same…
- ballast noun device used for stabilizing current in an electric circuit (e.g. in a tube lamp supply circuit)
- band noun A designated range of radio frequencies used for wireless communication.
- bandreject adj (of a filter, circuit, or system) Rejecting or attenuating a specific range of frequencies while passing those above and below.
- bar noun One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
- barnacle noun On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or…
- base noun The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
- base communications noun Communications services, such as the installation, operation, maintenance, augmentation, modification, and rehabilitation of communications…
- base station subsystem noun that section of a GSM network which is responsible for transmitting radio signals to and receiving radio signals from a mobile phone
- baseband noun The frequency range occupied by a message signal prior to modulation.
- battery noun A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically)…
- battery pack noun A set of batteries or battery cells connected together to deliver a certain voltage, capacity, or power density, often with an integrated…
- battery-backed adj Of a device, using a battery to maintain operation when not powered by the main electrical supply (e.g. during a blackout).
- baud noun A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.
- BB noun Initialism of baseband.
- beaconing noun A continuous signaling of error conditions on a LAN, or small packets on a wireless LAN (WLAN).
- bed of nails noun A device for testing a chip, consisting of an array of spring-loaded pins.
- beige box noun A device used in phreaking, technically equivalent to a telephone company lineman's handset: a telephone fitted with alligator clips to…
- belted cable noun A 3-phase power cable whose conductors are bunched together and isolated with oil-impregnated insulating paper.
- BFC noun big fucking capacitor - a high-voltage film capacitor suitable for use in power transmission, electric motor starters and applications…
- bias verb To give a bias to.
- biased adj On which an electrical bias is applied.
- biaswise adv In terms of bias.
- big ugly dish noun A C-band satellite dish used by television receive-only (TVRO) systems, ranging from 4 to 16 feet in diameter.
- bioelectronics noun The application of electronics in the field of biology
- birdie noun An electromagnetic signal generated from within an electronic device.
- bistable noun A flip-flop.
- bitline noun An array of columns of memory cells in random access memory, used with the wordline to generate the address of each cell.
- bitrate noun The frequency at which bits (binary digits) pass a given physical or metaphorical point, measured in bps (bits per second).
- black noise noun Technical silence; noise that has a frequency spectrum of predominantly zero power level over all frequencies except for a few narrow bands…
- black spot noun A location with poor radio signal reception, e.g. for mobile phones.
- black start noun The process of restoring an electric power station or part of an electric grid to operation without relying on the external electric power…
- blind spot noun A location where radio reception and/or transmission is significantly poorer than in surrounding locations.
- blip noun A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
- blivet noun 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.
- blocked adj Banned or barred from connecting or logging on.
- blow a fuse verb To overload a circuit sufficiently that a fuse protecting it melts away (or informally a circuit breaker trips), stopping current from…
- blowable adj That can cease to function when overloaded.
- blue box noun An electronic device used to bypass payment on a tone pulse telephone system.
- BNC connector noun A connector for a coaxial cable which keeps the central wire from touching the cable's outer shield.
- board finger noun A part used in printed circuit boards to form the traces of the edge connector which plug into matching sockets.
- body contact noun A conductive connection between body and active parts of electrical equipment resulting from a fault.
- bond verb To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).
- boom noun The longest element of a Yagi-Uda antenna, on which the other, smaller antennae are transversally mounted.