Crossword clues for electronics
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
electronics \electronics\ n.
the branch of physics that deals with the behavior of electrons. Electronics is primarily concerned with phenomena other than simple conduction, such as emission of electrons, storage of electrical charge, the effects of electrical fields on the conduction of electrons through a circuit, and amplification and manipulation of electric signals such as voltage or current by design of circuits. Electronics also encompasses the application of such fundamental principles to the construction of devices using the manipulation of electrons in their operation, known as electronic devices.
the branch of engineering concerned with design of devices using the principles of electronics, for practical purposes.
electronic devices generally, or the electronic circuits within an electronic device. The Russian harvesters are sturdily constructed, but their electronics are primitive.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1910, from electronic; also see -ics. The science of how electrons behave in vacuums, gas, semi-conductors, etc.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context physics English) The study and use of electrical devices that operate by controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles. 2 (context in the plural English) A device or devices which require the flow of electrons through conductors and semiconductors in order to perform their function; devices that operate on electrical power (battery or outlet); 3 electronic circuitry.
WordNet
n. the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices
Wikipedia
Electronics is the science of controlling electric energy, energy in which the electrons have a fundamental role. Electronics deals with electrical circuits that involve active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive electrical components and interconnection technologies. Commonly, electronic devices contain circuitry consisting primarily or exclusively of active semiconductors supplemented with passive elements; such a circuit is described as an electronic circuit.
The nonlinear behaviour of active components and their ability to control electron flows makes amplification of weak signals possible, and electronics is widely used in information processing, telecommunication, and signal processing. The ability of electronic devices to act as switches makes digital information processing possible. Interconnection technologies such as circuit boards, electronics packaging technology, and other varied forms of communication infrastructure complete circuit functionality and transform the mixed components into a regular working system.
Electronics is distinct from electrical and electro-mechanical science and technology, which deal with the generation, distribution, switching, storage, and conversion of electrical energy to and from other energy forms using wires, motors, generators, batteries, switches, relays, transformers, resistors, and other passive components. This distinction started around 1906 with the invention by Lee De Forest of the triode, which made electrical amplification of weak radio signals and audio signals possible with a non-mechanical device. Until 1950 this field was called "radio technology" because its principal application was the design and theory of radio transmitters, receivers, and vacuum tubes.
Today, most electronic devices use semiconductor components to perform electron control. The study of semiconductor devices and related technology is considered a branch of solid-state physics, whereas the design and construction of electronic circuits to solve practical problems come under electronics engineering. This article focuses on engineering aspects of electronics.
Electronics was an American trade journal that covered the radio industry and its later spin-offs in the mid-to-late 20th century. Its first issue was dated in April 1930. The periodical was published under the title Electronics until 1984, when it changed temporarily to the new title ElectronicsWeek, but then reverted again to the original title Electronics in 1985. The ISSN for the corresponding periods are: for the issues, for the issues with title ElectronicsWeek, and for the 1985–1995 issues. It was published by McGraw-Hill until 1988, when it was sold to the Dutch company VNU. VNU sold its American electronics magazines to Penton Publishing the next year.
Generally a monthly magazine, its frequency and page count varied with the state of the industry, until its end in 1995. More than its principal rival Electronic News, it balanced its appeal to managerial and technical interests (at the time of its 1992 makeover, it described itself as a magazine for managers). The magazine was best known for publishing the April 19, 1965 article by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, in which he outlined what came to be known as Moore's Law.
Usage examples of "electronics".
Notice in your own community how often the newspapers will notify you, as a businessperson, of an upcoming section covering fashion, catering, outdoor activities, music, electronics, boating and automobiles.
Professor Balthasar Van der Pol, director of Telecommunications Research for Philips of Eindhoven, the giant electronics group.
Certain things, electronics for example, had to be fabricated by the Ramanthians themselves.
Williams said, waving at a hornlike metal tube connected to a bank of electronics cabinets.
It seemed to be a lensless system depending on folded optics and a paper-thin electronics sandwich of an image plane that transmitted the pictures on its face through a pea-size FM device.
Denise used a power blade to slice through the casing and carefully positioned a dragon-extruded communications link on top of the databus unit Microfilaments slid through the electronics inside to merge with the fiberoptic cables.
He kept the steering pipper on the target, which his electronics had pegged as the source of several different radar emissions.
More recently, we have shopped for German cars and Japanese electronics.
Bill had never liked the chairman of Tottenham Hotspur, famous for his electronics and miserable little dishes.
Canadians would have two electronics surveillance F-16s in the air, with the new US air force operation at Tuzla on alert.
They immediately turned it over to Zhdanov, the retired world champion and electronics engineer.
Jupiter Prime got very upset when their glorified babysitters spilled coffee on expensive electronics.
The contraption reminded Langdon of some sort of cartoon ray gun-a wide cannonlike barrel with a sighting scope on top and a tangle of electronics dangling below.
Allied Electronics, who has already signed two hefty cheques, deposited in Geneva, for a Degas and a Monet whose original owners are now missing or dead.
The focus of the investigation now was not cloning, but the electronics and prosthetics expertise that had provided the disguised weapons.