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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data printout

Engineering; Electronic engineering

1. A device that prints a record of data or the results of a computation. 2. A permanent printed record, usually of a calculation or computation—especially the printed output of a computer ...

1. A device that provides electrical connection. 2. A fixture (either male or female) attached to a cable or chassis for quickly making and breaking one or more circuits. 3. A symbol that connects ...

curve trace

Engineering; Electronic engineering

1. A device that supplies a special variable test voltage to a component or circuit under test, at the same time supplying a sweep voltage to an oscilloscope. The component’s output voltage is also ...

driver

Engineering; Electronic engineering

1. A device that supplies a useful amount of signal energy to another device to ensure its proper operation (e.g., a current driver for a magnetic- core memory, an oscillator driving a loudspeaker). ...

dissipator

Engineering; Electronic engineering

1. A device used primarily to consume power (i.e., a power sink). 2. A device for removing heat generated by a device’s operation (e.g., a heatsink attached to a power transistor).

arrester

Engineering; Electronic engineering

1. A device used to protect an installation from lightning. It consists of a varistor or an air gap connected between an antenna or power line and an earth ground. The device passes little or no ...

differential

Engineering; Electronic engineering

1. A device, consisting of a gear system, that adds or subtracts angular motions and delivers the result. 2. A gear system in which the motion of a shaft is transferred to two other shafts aligned ...