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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contact force

Engineering; Electronic engineering

1. The force with which relay contacts close with a given amount of coil current. 2. The force with which a pair of relay contacts are held together when current flows through the coil. 3. In a ...

1. The formation of bonds between adjacent atoms in a crystalline material, such as a semiconductor. See specifically covalent binding forces, ionic binding forces, and metallic binding forces. 2. ...

damped natural frequency

Engineering; Electronic engineering

1. The frequency at which a damped system having one degree of freedom will oscillate after momentary application of a transient force. 2. In the presence of damping, the rate at which a sensing ...

audio system

Engineering; Electronic engineering

1. The portion of any electronic assembly that is used to process sound. 2. Special computer equipment capable of storing and processing digitized audio-frequency (AF) data.

anode

Engineering; Electronic engineering

1. The positive electrode of a vacuum tube or solid-state device (i.e., the electrode toward which electrons move during current flow). 2. In an electrochemical cell, the electrode that loses ...

contact load

Engineering; Electronic engineering

1. The power dissipated by a load that is connected to a power supply through a closed set of contacts. 2. The current passing through a set of closed contacts.

boot

Engineering; Electronic engineering

1. The powering-up routine in a digital computer, in which the machine executes a series of programs to get itself ready for use. 2. The resetting of a computer, by pressing certain keyboard keys ...