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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calculating punch

Engineering; Electronic engineering

A data-processing peripheral that reads punched cards, makes calculations, and punches new data into those cards or new cards.

bolometer bridge

Engineering; Electronic engineering

A dc bridge in which a bolometer is one of the four arms. The bridge is balanced first with the bolometer cold. The bolometer then is excited with a radio-frequency (RF) current, whereupon the ...

A dc-to-dc converter providing voltage step-up. The applied dc is usually first converted to ac, which is then stepped up by a transformer. The higher-voltage ac is then rectified to produce a high ...

biquinary decade

Engineering; Electronic engineering

A decade counter that consists of a binary stage, followed by a quinary stage.

assumed decimal point

Engineering; Electronic engineering

A decimal point that does not occupy an actual computer storage space, but is used by the computer to align values for calculation; the decimal point is assumed to be at the right unless otherwise ...