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 5 of 11: from “generation loss” to “layback”.
- generation loss noun The loss of quality between successive copies, usually associated with magnetic audio and video media.
- geothermy noun The process and practice of harvesting heat produced by the Earth to be used as an energy source.
- ghost call noun A telephone call for which, when the recipient of the call answers, there is no one on the other end.
- ghosting noun The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.
- gimmick noun A gimmick capacitor.
- glare noun A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
- grid noun The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
- ground noun An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
- ground loop noun A (usually unwanted) current that flows between two points that are meant to be at the same potential, but are not.
- ground out verb To provide proper grounding for a circuit.
- grounded adj Of or pertaining to an electrical conductor which is connected to earth; earthed.
- grounding noun The interconnecting metal chassis or frame of a device, appliance, machine, or metal raceway via a designated conductor to earth at the…
- GST noun One of various compounds of germanium, antimony, and tellurium used as a phase change material, including GeSbTe.
- GTO noun Initialism of gate turn-off.
- guard band noun An unused part of the radio spectrum between bands, for the purpose of preventing interference.
- Gunn effect noun The generation of high-frequency (usually microwave) oscillations within a semiconductor whenever an applied DC voltage exceeds its…
- Gunning transceiver logic noun A kind of logic signaling used to drive electronic backplane buses, having a voltage swing between 0.4 and 1.2 volts—much lower than that…
- H-field noun An auxiliary vector field that describes the driving magnetic influence produced by free currents, independent of the material's response.
- hacker noun One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer…
- half duplex adj Synonym of semiduplex.
- hammer break noun An interrupter in which contact is broken by the movement of an automatically vibrating hammer between a contact piece and an…
- Hamming code noun Any of a family of linear error-correcting codes that generalize the Hamming(7,4)-code invented by Richard Hamming in 1950.
- hard error noun A type of error which persists even after power-cycling the equipment; associated with permanent physical damage to the equipment's…
- hard-wire verb To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires.
- hardline noun A physical wire or cable connection; landline.
- hardware description language noun Any language from a class of computer, modeling, or specification languages for formal description and design of analogue or digital logic…
- hardware node noun A physical device that is connected to a network and is able to send, receive, or forward information.
- hardwired adj Designed to perform a specific task.
- hash verb Ellipsis of hash noise.
- hash noise noun A harsh, pulsating, or buzzy interference signal, often caused by ground loops, electromagnetic interference, or failing components.
- headroom noun The ability of a system to reproduce loud sounds free of distortion; dynamic headroom.
- heating element noun A device used for the conversion of electric energy into heat, consisting of a heating resistor and accessories.
- helping hand noun A jig used to help solder wires and electronics, consisting of a weighted base, a pair of adjustable arms ending in crocodile clips (the…
- helpline noun A telephone service (or (by extension) one using email, SMS, or the Web) which offers help to those who call, as either a public emergency…
- high shelf noun A filter that gradually increases or decreases frequencies above a certain point in the frequency spectrum.
- high-level synthesis noun A design method that automatically transforms an algorithmic or behavioral description of a digital system, written in a high-level…
- highpass adj Describing a filter, circuit, or system that rejects or attenuates a frequencies below a specified value while passing those above.
- hold time noun The minimum amount of time for which the data input should be held steady after the clock event for reliable sampling.
- home run noun A connection from a central distribution point or circuit breaker to a destination.
- homeset noun The equipment (satellite) for receiving signals from a direct broadcast satellite service.
- homochronous adj Of two signals, such that their corresponding significant instants are displaced by a constant interval of time.
- hook flash noun A signal that briefly disconnects the local loop circuit by means of the hookswitch or a dedicated button, used to control functions on the…
- hot chassis noun A metal chassis, used as a base for electrical equipment, that is live because it lacks a transformer to isolate the equipment from the…
- hot microphone noun A microphone that is activated (but not powered) by the sound of the user's voice, allowing it to pick up speech without having to be…
- hotel load noun The electrical load caused by all systems on a vehicle (especially a marine vessel or a truck) other than propulsion.
- hourly rating noun A measure of the maximum output, usually expressed in horsepower, that can be obtained from the motors of an electric locomotive for a…
- howlround noun A high-pitched squeal produced by feedback when a microphone is too close to its connected speakers.
- HSYNC noun The horizontal synchronization signal incorporated in a video transmission, such as for a TV broadcast.
- hunting noun The process of determining which of a group of telephone lines will receive a call.
- hybrid noun An electronic circuit constructed of individual devices bonded to a substrate or PCB.
- immunisation noun The process of immunising signalling and traction power supplies so they don't interfere with each other.
- implementation noun A result of implementing something; a finished product, system or device.
- implicant noun 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…
- in series prep_phrase Of components: connected in a chain, instead of in parallel.
- in-band signaling noun The sending of control information within the same band or channel used for data such as voice or video.
- in-plane switching noun A type of liquid crystal display (LCD) layered parallel between two glass pieces that is activated by an electric current to produce an…
- inducteous adj Rendered electropolar by induction, or brought into the opposite electrical state by the influence of inductive bodies.
- inductor noun A passive device that introduces inductance into an electrical circuit.
- influence noun Electrostatic induction.
- inlead verb To lead into; conduct.
- input noun An input jack.
- inset noun A modular microphone that can be removed from a telephone handset without disassembly.
- insulation noun a medium in which it is possible to maintain an electrical field with little supply of energy from additional sources.
- integration time noun Of an electronic system, the period of time in which a noisy signal is averaged so as to improve the signal-to-noise ratio.
- interaxis adj Pertaining to the perpendicularity (or deviation therefrom) of a set of resolver windings when another set of windings is excited.
- interconnect noun An interconnection.
- interdigit adj Between digits (as when dialling a number)
- interlace noun A technique of improving the picture quality of a video signal primarily on CRT devices without consuming extra bandwidth.
- intermediate switch noun A light switch with two pairs of two terminals, which can be switched between straight-through or swapped wiring. Typically used as part of…
- interposer noun An electrical interface between one connection or socket and another, used to spread a connection to a wider pitch or to reroute it.
- interrupt noun An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.
- inverter noun A power inverter.
- invertor noun A device that converts direct current into alternating current.
- iris noun A constricted opening in the path inside a waveguide, used to form a resonator.
- jack noun A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.
- jack in verb To insert an electronic coupling into a receptacle; to connect to something, whether involving a physical medium or not.
- jellybean part noun A commonly available electronic component that may be readily replaced with similar ones, often made by different manufacturers.
- jiffy noun The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second).
- jitter noun An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
- Johnson thermoelectric energy converter noun An electrochemical heat engine, with no moving parts, which can take a heat source and convert it to electric power, or take electric power…
- jumper noun A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
- jumpered adj Fitted with a jumper.
- junction noun electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.
- junction box noun A box through which the main conductors of a system of electric distribution pass, and where connection is made with branch circuits or to…
- K-factor noun A measurement of how well a power transformer can handle harmonic distortion.
- keep in verb To keep a telephone call active or queued so that the operators can try the number again later.
- keepalive noun 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…
- key verb To depress (a telegraph key).
- keybounce noun Multiple recorded keystrokes from a single press of a key on a computer keyboard due to poor electrical contact.
- keyset noun An input device whose few keys can be pressed in many combinations, often simultaneously, to enter different commands or characters.
- kludge noun An improvised device, typically crudely constructed to test the validity of a principle before implementing a finished design.
- laminar adj In the form of thin flat electronic circuits, usually flexible
- land noun A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
- LAPD noun Link Access Procedures, D channel; specified in ITU-T Q.920 and ITU-T Q.921. The second layer protocol on the ISDN protocol stack.
- large scale integration noun An integration type for digital circuits that contain tens of thousands of transistors providing thousands of logic gates per chip.
- last mile noun The portion of the infrastructure that carries communication signals from the main system to the end user's business or home, often…
- latch noun An electronic circuit that is like a flip-flop, except that it is level triggered instead of edge triggered.
- latch-up noun A kind of short circuit caused by the inadvertent creation of a low-impedance path between the power supply rails of a MOSFET circuit.
- latency noun A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
- layback noun The process of recording the final sound onto the master track.