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  2. Glossary of electrical and electronics engineering - Wikipedia

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    An electromechanical or electronic device that detects faults on a power system and can signal circuit breakers to operate. proximity effect The increase in circuit resistance when the magnetic fields of multiple AC currents interact. pulse transformer A transformer designed to create or transmit pulses. pulse-width modulation

  3. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    EDA—Electronic Design Automation; EDGE—Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution; EDI—Electronic Data Interchange; EDO—Extended Data Out; EDSAC—Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator; EDVAC—Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer; EEPROM—Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory; EFF—Electronic Frontier ...

  4. Reference designator - Wikipedia

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    IEEE 200-1975 or "Standard Reference Designations for Electrical and Electronics Parts and Equipments" is a standard that was used to define referencing naming systems for collections of electronic equipment. IEEE 200 was ratified in 1975. The IEEE renewed the standard in the 1990s, but withdrew it from active support shortly thereafter.

  5. Glossary of computer hardware terms - Wikipedia

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    An electronic or electromechanical hardware device that is used for entering data into, and displaying data from, a computer or a computing system. touchpad. Also trackpad. A pointing device consisting of specialized surface that can translate the motion and position of a user's fingers or a stylus to a relative position on a screen. [7] TV ...

  6. List of information technology initialisms - Wikipedia

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    Abbreviation Meaning Primary Applicability [4] Normative Reference ACK: Acknowledgement Transport and other layers TCP/IP, for example. RFC 793 ACL: Access control list Security, application layer Access control list, Cisco overview: ADSL: Asymmetric digital subscriber line Telecom ITU-T G.992.5 Annex M, for example AES: Advanced Encryption ...

  7. Glossary of power electronics - Wikipedia

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    This glossary of power electronics is a list of definitions of terms and concepts related to power electronics in general and power electronic capacitors in particular. For more definitions in electric engineering, see Glossary of electrical and electronics engineering .

  8. Electronic symbol - Wikipedia

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    An electronic symbol is a pictogram used to represent various electrical and electronic devices or functions, such as wires, batteries, resistors, and transistors, in a schematic diagram of an electrical or electronic circuit. These symbols are largely standardized internationally today, but may vary from country to country, or engineering ...

  9. Electronic engineering - Wikipedia

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    Electronic engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering that emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current flow. Previously electrical engineering only used passive devices such as mechanical switches, resistors ...