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Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities
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oscilloscope
Word definitions for oscilloscope in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An electronic measuring instrument that creates a visible two-dimensional graph, on a screen, of one or more continuously varying voltages or currents.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"instrument for visually recording an electrical wave," 1915, a hybrid formed from Latin oscillare "to swing" (see oscillation ) + -scope .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
oscilloscope \os*cil"lo*scope\, n. [L. oscillare to swing + -scope.] An electronic measuring instrument which provides a visual representation of the time variation of electrical quantities, such as voltage or current. It may be used to measure the shape ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities [syn: scope , cathode-ray oscilloscope , CRO ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An oscilloscope , previously called an oscillograph, and informally known as a scope , CRO (for cathode-ray oscilloscope), or DSO (for the more modern digital storage oscilloscope), is a type of electronic test instrument that allows observation of constantly ...
Usage examples of oscilloscope.
Taking control, Dex began to flip a series of buttons, causing a jagged signal to appear on another oscilloscope display.
Several banks of telescreens and oscilloscopes flanked the instrument panel.
One lead hooked him into the plethysmograph and the Lissajous oscilloscope and the GSR galvanometer.
Multi-tracks and oscilloscopes and VCRs and huge 3-mil thick Mylar foam speakers that looked like the rear seats of a 1933 Chevy.
Several banks of telescreens and oscilloscopes flanked the instrument panel.
No odors, no fluids, just images on TV monitors, tracings on oscilloscopes, graphics on their Calyx workstations, and the occasional disembodied sound effect coming out of a speaker.
She had to remind herself that Crius had sounded like that, too: flat, emotionless, without human inflection, like a voice constructed on an oscilloscope screen.
The walls were covered with diagnostics racks, oscilloscopes, computers, TV monitors, like props from an old TV show.
The oscilloscope built into Anglesey's machine gave him the other man's exact alpha rhythm, his basic biological clock.
On the face of a cathode-ray oscilloscope now in his field of view, a wiggly green trace diagrammed pulses which he was sure showed exactly how scared he was.
John Gigg, the graduate student who had replaced Roger Mason amid the welter of cables and oscilloscopes - now jazzed up with some rather more sophisticated computing gear, which took much of the steam out of interpreting the data - was set to map the time course of the 'bursting' on the neurons in IMHV, and look at the LPO as well.
I once witnessed an experiment in which the head of a green bottle fly was connected by a very thin wire to an oscilloscope that displayed, in a kind of graph, any electrical impulses produced by the fly's olfactory system.
Late into the night the three of them worked, making little marks on printouts of the oscilloscope and recording them on yellow legal pads.
And get down some oscilloscopes and a standard-scale vibration-measuring device with extra short-pulse equipment on it.
A maze of temporary wiring ran to Dr Hughes’s equipment — multibeam oscilloscopes, megawattmeters and microchronometers and the special relays that had been constructed to make the circuit at the calculated instant.