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 11 of 11: from “trigger” to “zombie finger”.
- trigger verb To activate; to become active.
- trimmer noun An adjustable electrical component.
- triode noun A thermionic valve containing an anode, a cathode, and a control grid; small changes to the charge on the grid control the flow from…
- trip noun A trip-switch or cut-out.
- trip out verb To break a circuit in response to an overload.
- trip switch noun A device to halt the current flow, a cut-out or trip.
- tripler noun The simplest form of frequency multiplier, that has an output frequency of three times the value of the input frequency.
- tristated adj In a high-impedance state that is neither the high output state nor the low output state, and allows other devices to drive the bus without…
- trombone verb To transmit a signal or data back to a central switching point before sending it out to its destination.
- truck roll noun The dispatching of service personnel to a client's location (as opposed to remotely addressing an issue)
- true adj one of two states of a Boolean variable; logic 1.
- trunk verb To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.
- Turing switch noun A logical construction modelling the operation of the network switch, just as in theoretical computer science a Turing machine models the…
- turn-by-turn navigation noun A feature of GPS devices, particularly smartphones, that continuously gives directions as the person or vehicle approaches navigation…
- turn-off time noun The amount of time between the moment the anode current reaches zero and the moment the reverse voltage due to the practical circuit…
- turn-on time noun The amount of time required for a device to change from a forward blocking mode to a forward conduction mode when a gate pulse is applied.
- turned on adj That has been switched on or placed in the on position.
- turret noun A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
- tweeter noun An electronic speaker designed to produce high-frequency sound.
- twitter noun Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of…
- two-way switch noun A plain type of light switch that can control lights, or other electrical loads, from a single location; a single-throw switch.
- ultra large scale integration noun An integration type for digital circuits that contain more than one million transistors providing hundreds of thousands of logic gates per…
- unclocked adj Not measured or regulated by a clock; asynchronous.
- unground verb To remove a connection to ground potential.
- ungrounded adj Not connected to ground potential
- unhold verb To remove from a "hold" or "on hold" state.
- unilateralization noun neutralization.
- uninterruptible power supply noun A device or system that almost instantaneously provides emergency power in the case that main power fails.
- unit noun One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
- unit interval noun symbol duration time.
- unlock verb To configure (a mobile phone) so that it is not bound to any particular carrier.
- unlocked adj Not bound to any particular carrier.
- unlooper noun A device used to break a smart card's microcontroller out of an infinite loop state that makes it otherwise unusable.
- upconversion noun Conversion of a lower radio frequency to a higher frequency, possibly using a mixer.
- uplead noun The line or lines connecting the output of a transmitter to its antenna.
- uplink noun The communication path from a mobile device to a base station, a consumer to the network backbone, a client device to a server, etc.
- upmix verb To demix a downmixed track and increase the number of channels: convert mono into stereo, or stereo into surround sound, etc.
- UPS verb To connect a device to an uninterruptible power supply.
- UTP noun unshielded twisted pair — a type of cable used for computer networking and telecommunications
- vacuum tube noun A type of electron tube that controls electron current through vacuum between electrodes within a sealed container, usually of glass or…
- varistor noun An electronic component having a variable resistance; used to protect circuits against power surges.
- VCC noun Common Collector Voltage; the positive supply voltage for an integrated circuit containing bipolar junction transistors.
- vertical alignment noun A style of liquid crystal display (LCD) that is naturally stored in an upright vertical position, producing a black image until an…
- very large scale integration noun An integration type for digital circuits that contain hundreds of thousands of transistors providing hundreds of thousands of logic gates…
- via noun A small hole in a printed circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layers.
- video conference noun A conference held by videolink; an arranged video phone call between more than two parties.
- vinculum noun A horizontal line placed over a symbol or expression to denote logical negation (complement).
- VOC noun V_(OC): initialism of open-circuit voltage.
- voice coil noun A coil of wire attached to the apex of the cone of a loudspeaker that provides the motive force to the cone by the reaction of a magnetic…
- voice over broadband noun A transmission technique that enables a user to make and receive telephone calls over a broadband connection.
- voice over IP noun Voice over Internet Protocol (also "VoIP"), a telecommunications system that uses the Internet or other Internet Protocol network to…
- Voice over NR noun A 5G high-speed wireless communication standard for mobile phones and data terminals, including Internet of things (IoT) devices and…
- voltage noun The difference in electrostatic potential between two points in space, especially between live and neutral conductors or the earth.
- voltage divider noun A type of simple electronic circuit which reduces any input voltage by a fixed factor using sources of impedance (such as resistors)…
- voltage multiplier noun An electronic circuit that provides an output voltage higher than the input voltage, by means of capacitors and diodes.
- VSS symbol one of the power-supply pins on some integrated circuits
- Wabun code noun A form of Morse code used to encode Japanese-language messages written in kana for transmission via telegram.
- wafer noun A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.
- wafer-scale integration noun A rarely-used system of building very large integrated circuit networks that use an entire silicon wafer to produce a single "super-chip".
- watchdog verb To be continuously reset by a watchdog timer.
- waterfilling noun The situation where each channel in a communication network is amplified to a sufficient level to compensate for impairments.
- Weyl fermion noun A massless quasiparticle and fermion, which carries electric charge, and cannot move backwards, that may exist in Weyl semimetals, where an…
- white plague noun The white gold-aluminium intermetallic compound Au₅Al₂, which can be formed when gold and aluminium are heated in direct contact (for…
- wild adj Of unregulated and varying frequency.
- WiMAX noun Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access: a telecommunications technology providing wireless data, voice and video over long…
- winding noun A length of wire wound around the armature of an electric motor or the core of an electrical transformer.
- window detector noun A special type of comparator which provides an indication of whether the input voltage is within a specified range.
- wireline noun Synonym of landline.
- wiring harness noun A bundle of insulated wires, often held together with straps or other connectors, that transmit signals or electrical current within a…
- wiring loom noun A wiring harness; a bundle of wires, tied together but not enclosed in a rigid conduit, that transmit signals or electrical current within…
- word noun A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
- wordline noun An array of rows of memory cells in random access memory, used with the bitline to generate the address of each cell.
- wow noun A relatively slow form of flutter (pitch variation) which can affect both gramophone records and tape recorders.
- wowless adj Free of wows.
- WPT noun Abbreviation of wireless-power transfer.
- xor noun A logic gate that implements "exclusive or".
- yoke noun Originally, a metal piece connecting the poles of a magnet or electromagnet; later, a part of magnetic circuit (such as in a generator or…
- Zener diode noun A semiconductor junction device through which current flows normally in the forward direction, and in the reverse direction if a large…
- zero out verb To press or dial 0 in order to escape a voicemail recording facility and speak to an operator.
- zero prefix noun The digit 0 that begins all telephone numbers in the United Kingdom, which is substituted for the country code in the event of…
- zombie finger noun The failure of a capacitive touch screen to sense the user's fingertip, due to dry skin, calluses, cold weather, etc.