an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally; "In the US most household current is AC at 60 cycles per second"
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an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally; "In the US most household current is AC at 60 cycles per second"
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering.an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally; "In the US most household current is AC at 60 cycles per second"
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering.electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions…
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Chemistry, Materials chemistry, Condensed matter.an electric current that flows in one direction steadily
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering.an electric current that flows in one direction steadily
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering.an electric current that flows in one direction steadily
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering.energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor; "they built a car that runs on electricity"; "The power went…
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering.energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor; "they built a car that runs on electricity"; "The power went…
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering.a transistor in which most current flows in a channel whose effective resistance can be controlled by a transverse electric field
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Chemistry, Materials chemistry, Condensed matter.a signal that temporarily stops the execution of a program so that another procedure can be carried out
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering.energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor; "they built a car that runs on electricity"; "The power went…
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering.an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which…
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering.(electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Chemistry, Engineering.(electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a wave…
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Engineering.(electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be com…
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Engineering.(electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a wave…
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Engineering.(electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be com…
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Engineering.
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Sulphide of silver; -- also called vitreous silver, or silver glance. It has a metallic luster, a lead-gray color, and is sectile like…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.White lead, used as a pigment. See White lead, under White.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.a mineral consisting of lead carbonate that is an important source of lead
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.To lead about; to lead astray.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also red lead ore.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.A plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants (whence its name), but now made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consist…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.Any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chron…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.Lead sulphide; the principal ore of lead. It is of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, and is cubic in crystallization and cleava…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.A lead-gray or grayish blue mineral with a metallic luster, consisting of sulphur, antimony, and lead, with a small proportion of arse…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.A variety of white lead. See Krems lead, under Lead, n.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.An article made of lead or an alloy of lead
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