Electronic engineering

Electronic engineering

Electronic engineering is an engineering discipline focused on the design, fabrication, testing and operation of circuits, electronic components, devices, and systems.

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decade box

Engineering; Electronic engineering

A group of components that provides values in 10 equal steps selected by a switch or jacks. For compactness, the components and the associated hardware are enclosed in a box or can. See, for example, ...

cerium metals

Engineering; Electronic engineering

A group of metals belonging to the rare-earth group: cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, praseodymium, promethium, and samarium.

array device

Engineering; Electronic engineering

A group of similar or identical components that are connected together in a certain fashion, to perform a specific task.

cracker

Engineering; Electronic engineering

A hacker with malicious intent (also See hacker). Such a person attempts to gain access to computer systems or databases in order to steal something or inflict damage. Examples include theft, ...

coaxial antenna

Engineering; Electronic engineering

A half-wave vertical antenna that is center-fed by coaxial cable. The cable runs upward through a 1⁄4-wave section of tubing that composes the lower half of the antenna. The outer conductor of the ...

cordless mouse

Engineering; Electronic engineering

A hand-controlled computer mouse that employs an infrared (IR), a very-high frequency (VHF), or an ultra-high-frequency (UHF) transmitter and receiver. The transmitter is inside the device, and the ...

double-wye rectifier

Engineering; Electronic engineering

A heavy-load circuit using six rectifier diodes, each conducting for 120 degrees of the cycle. An interphase winding is used. The circuit is equivalent to two three-phase, half-wave rectifiers ...