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Aviation

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

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heat sink

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of heavy metal on which such electrical components as power transistors are mounted. Heat from the component is transferred into the heat sink by conduction, and from ...

permanent magnet

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of magnetizable material, such as hard steel, that has been exposed to a strong magnetizing force. This force aligns the spin axes of the electrons surrounding the atoms ...

magnet

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of material or a device that has the ability to attract pieces of iron or steel and to generate an electrical voltage in a wire passing near it. A piece of ferrous metal ...

saddle gusset

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of plywood glued to an aircraft structural member. The saddle gusset has a cutout to hold a backing block or strip tightly against the skin to allow a nailing strip to be ...

decade resistance box

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of precision electrical test equipment containing two or more sets of precision resistors mounted on ten-position rotary selector switches. A typical decade resistance box ...

capacitance bridge

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of precision electrical test equipment used to measure capacitance. The bridge measures the capacitance of an unknown capacitor by comparing its capacitive reactance with ...

crystal

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of quartz or Rochelle salt which has piezoelectric characteristics. A piezoelectric crystal produces a voltage between two of its opposite surfaces, or faces, when it is ...