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Aviation

Dealing with vehicles or machines used in flight or propulsion through the air.

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driver

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of electronic equipment in a circuit that supplies input power to an output circuit or device.

line-voltage regulator

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of electronic equipment, used to stabilize the line voltage supplied to a piece of electrical or electronic equipment. Circuits in the line-voltage regulator increase the ...

automatic direction finder (ADF)

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of electronic navigation equipment which operates in the low- and medium-frequency bands. ADF uses a directional loop antenna and a nondirectional sense antenna to find ...

resistance decade

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of electronic test equipment consisting of several precision resistors and selector switches. By connecting the resistance decade into a circuit and setting the selector ...

signal generator

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of electronic test equipment that produces an electrical signal having a specified voltage, frequency, and waveform. Signal generators are used for troubleshooting and ...

signal tracer

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of electronic test equipment used to trace a signal through each stage of a piece of electronic equipment. Troubleshooting of malfunctioning equipment is simplified by ...

stiffener

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of formed sheet metal or extrusion riveted to a larger piece of thin sheet metal to give it rigidity and stiffness. Some types of aircraft sheet metal structure have large ...