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emitter

n. 1 That which emits something. 2 (context electronics English) The name for one terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).

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emitter

n. the electrode in a transistor where electrons originate

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Emitter

Emitter may refer to:

Devices which emit charged particles:

  • Cathode, or positive electrode, in a vacuum tube or diode
  • Anode, or negative electrode, in certain applications based on the emission of ions from a solid surface
  • One of the three terminals of a bipolar transistor

Devices which emit electromagnetic radiation:

  • Lambertian emitter, a light source whose radiance varies with angle according to Lambert's cosine law
  • An infrared LED used to emulate a remote control

Other uses:

  • Emitter, a device used in drip irrigation

Usage examples of "emitter".

They were individually more powerful than any past Manticoran battlecruiser had ever mounted, with fourteen emitters per cluster, each capable of cycling at one shot every sixteen seconds.

The Equinox EMH made his statement casually while eying the mobile emitter with understandable curiosity.

Jaina checked on the progress of the AirStraekers and found them so close now that she could see the underwing emitter fans flashing individual maser beamsand she could hear the wood cracking as mogo trees burst into flame.

She nodded to the cadre of constables and technicians who had accompanied her to this empty industrial park, and one of them stepped forward with a small beam emitter.

Holodeck matter owes its form and solidity to the pattern held within the holodeck replication and transport buffer and therefore is disassembled when the emitters are turned off or the holomatter is removed from the holodeck.

Deanna used the emitters in the ceiling to guide herself into place on the pad, because seeing her feet was just too difficult.

As it skidded across the deck, foam shot from emitters, and nets stretched between the deck and ceiling, catching the runabout and preventing any serious damage to the craft, its inhabitants, or the shuttlebay.

Because they had been told they could replicate the device, they had, and there were work benches all over the room with emitters spread out in various stages of disassembly.

Setting off a whole chain of portable Genesis emitters would no doubt merge their dimension with the radiation-filled blackness which threatened to drown them.

Soon they disappeared in the sand except for the glittering domes of their Dirac emitters that peered out from the red slopes of the dunes, forming the evenly spaced links of one huge circular chain.

These flat info-robots were considerably larger than the field emitters, and walked on curved metallic stilts that projected on either side.

He backed out the rear robot to make a gangway for his small vehicle, then placed both emitters in position, switched on the protective field by remote control, left all the helpless men safely herded inside the energy dome, and started back.

He was also certain that it was the location of the emitters that sent the wave on its genocidal onslaught.

She noticed a row of particle emitters exactly like those that would be used for the Genesis Wave.

The clearing and the guests flickered, then winked from sight, leaving only a large room with bright yellow gridlines painted on dark emitter panels.