This page gathers the 524 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Electronics”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 1 of 5: from “aberration” to “collector”.
- 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
- 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).
- ALD noun Initialism of atomic layer deposition.
- aligner noun A system that produces integrated circuits by precision photolithography.
- 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…
- anode noun The electrode which collects electrons emitted by the cathode in a vacuum tube or gas-filled tube.
- anticathode noun The target at which electrons from the cathode in a CRT or x-ray tube are directed.
- antimetry noun A property of an electrical network where the normalised impedance of one port is the reciprocal of another.
- arbiter noun A component in circuitry that allocates scarce resources.
- arch noun An architecture; a computer architecture or instruction set architecture.
- 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.
- attenuate verb To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.
- 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
- 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.
- axial lead noun An electrical component with two leads (wires) extending out in opposite directions (along a single axis).
- 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)
- 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).
- baseband noun A device using baseband transmission.
- 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).
- BB noun Initialism of baseband.
- bed of nails noun A device for testing a chip, consisting of an array of spring-loaded pins.
- 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.
- biaswise adv In terms of bias.
- 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.
- 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.
- blowable adj That can cease to function when overloaded.
- board finger noun A part used in printed circuit boards to form the traces of the edge connector which plug into matching sockets.
- boom noun The longest element of a Yagi-Uda antenna, on which the other, smaller antennae are transversally mounted.
- bounce verb To turn power to (a device) off and back on; to reset; to reboot.
- breadboard noun A device used to build a (usually temporary) prototype of an electronic circuit and for experimenting with circuit designs. Both solder and…
- breakout adj Splitting a signal into several signals.
- brick-wall limiter noun A limiter circuit that completely cuts off signals above a specified threshold, rather than merely attenuating the peaks.
- bricking noun The state of an electronic device being rendered completely unusable by a failed or corrupted firmware or software change.
- bridge noun An unintended solder connection between two or more components or pins.
- bring up verb To check (a newly-assembled printed circuit board) for errors.
- bringup noun The process of checking newly-assembled printed circuit boards for defects and ensuring they run as expected.
- buck verb To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
- bucket brigade noun A discrete-time analogue delay line that moves a signal along a line of capacitors, one step at each clock cycle.
- bulger noun A capacitor with a bulging top.
- buncher noun A circuit that causes electrons or other charged particles in a particle beam to group together.
- burn in noun A process by which an image becomes permanently imprinted on an electronic display such as a monitor.
- burst mode noun A mode in which data is transmitted repeatedly without separate transactions.
- bus noun An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.
- calligraphic projection noun A system for displaying or projecting an image composed of a beam of light or electrons directly tracing the image, as opposed to sweeping…
- cap noun A capacitor.
- capacitor noun An electronic component capable of storing electrical energy in an electric field; especially one consisting of two conductors separated by…
- capacitor plague noun Premature failure of an electrolytic capacitor, especially when several are beginning to fail at the same time in a piece of equipment…
- capstan noun A rotating spindle used to move recording tape through the mechanism of a tape recorder.
- card clash noun The situation where two or more contactless payment cards are simultaneously detected by a card reader, possibly resulting in the incorrect…
- carrier noun A charge carrier.
- cartridge ejector noun A mechanism to eject a cartridge from its housing or cartridge drive, often operating on a simple mechanical principle.
- cathode noun The electrode from which electrons are emitted into a vacuum tube or gas-filled tube.
- cathode ray tube noun A vacuum tube that displays still or moving images (such as for a television), by controlling the direction of a cathode ray emitted…
- cavity magnetron noun A high-power vacuum tube used in early radar systems and subsequently in microwave ovens and in linear particle accelerators.
- CCD noun Initialism of charge-coupled device (digital camera cell technology).
- CD3 noun an 80-mm (3-inch) CD (compact disc)
- CD5 noun a 120-mm (5-inch) CD (compact disc)
- cdr noun Initialism of current divider rule or current division rule.
- channel noun A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
- chicken bit noun A bit on a chip that can be used to disable one of the features of the chip if it proves faulty or negatively impacts performance.
- chip noun A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate; a microchip.
- chipless adj Without microchips.
- choke noun A choking coil.
- chopper noun Any of various electronic switches used to interrupt one signal under the control of another.
- circuit topology noun The form of an electronic circuit taken by the network of its components.
- circulator noun A passive electronic component with three or more ports, in which the ports can be accessed in such a way that when a signal is fed into…
- clamp noun An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC…
- clamper noun A circuit that restricts the amplitude of a waveform.
- clearance time noun The amount of time from when a fault is detected to when a circuit is automatically reopened.
- clipper noun A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
- clock noun An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
- clock out verb To transmit individual bits of data under the control of a clock.
- clock rate noun The rate of clock pulses in an electronic circuit.
- clock skew noun A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different…
- clocked adj Electronically running at a particular rate; governed by a repetitive time signal.
- coaxial cable noun A transmission line, consisting of a conducting wire surrounded by an insulated spacer, surrounded by a cylindrical conducting sheath; used…
- coil noun A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
- cold cathode noun A type of cathode that does not use a heating element to produce emission of cathode rays (electrons), beyond base thermionic emission…
- collector noun The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.