Crossword clues for oscillator
oscillator
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
oscillator \os"cil*la`tor\ ([o^]s"s[i^]l*l[=a]`t[~e]r), n.
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One that oscillates; specif.: (Electronics) Any device or circuit for producing electric oscillations, whether of current or voltage; esp., an apparatus for generating electric waves in a system of wireless telegraphy.
Note: Oscillators are essential components of radio transmission devices and digital computers, as well as many other types of electronic device. In computers the oscillator provides the voltage impulses which permit information bits to be transferred between parts of the computer in a defined sequence.
(Mech.) An instrument for measuring rigidity by the torsional oscillations of a weighted wire.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
agent noun in Latin form from oscillate; 1835 of persons, 1889 in reference to electric currents.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A tuned electronic circuit used to generate a continuous output waveform. 2 An instrument for measuring rigidity by the torsional oscillations of a weighted wire. 3 (context cellular automata English) A pattern that returns to its original state, in the same orientation and position, after a finite number of generations.
WordNet
n. generator that produces sonic oscillations or alternating current
Wikipedia
In a cellular automaton, an oscillator is a pattern that returns to its original state, in the same orientation and position, after a finite number of generations. Thus the evolution of such a pattern repeats itself indefinitely. Depending on context, the term may also include spaceships as well.
The smallest number of generations it takes before the pattern returns to its initial condition is called the period of the oscillator. An oscillator with a period of 1 is usually called a still life, as such a pattern never changes. Sometimes, still lifes are not taken to be oscillators. Another common stipulation is that an oscillator must be finite.
An oscillator is a device designed for oscillation.
Oscillator may also refer to:
- Electronic oscillator
- Harmonic oscillator
- Oscillator (technical analysis), a method used in technical analysis of financial markets
- Oscillator (cellular automaton)
- Oscillator (EP), an EP by Information Society
Oscillator is an EP by Information Society. It was their first new commercial release after six-year break.
This six-song record uses the vocal stylings of newcomer Christopher Anton, as well as a range of intriguing guests and remixers. In addition to four mixes of the underground hit "Back in the Day", and the well-received track "I Like The Way You Werk It", there is a rare live recording of "Great Big Disco World", made at Club Milky Robot in Osaka, Japan, in 2006.
An oscillator is a technical analysis indicator that varies over time within a band (above and below a center line, or between set levels). Oscillators are used to discover short-term overbought or oversold conditions.
Common oscillators are MACD, ROC, RSI, CCI.
Usage examples of "oscillator".
In the synchronized state, both of the other oscillators have voltage 0 too.
The end result was a population split into a synchronized pack and a disorganized band of fringe oscillators.
As he made the distribution even narrower, more and more oscillators were co-opted into the synchronized pack.
As the diversity is reduced and the oscillators become more similar, the order parameter rises as the synchronized pack conscripts more of the population.
Cesium oscillators, hydrogen masers, satellites, and synchronizers opened an unlikely door to wonder - one which led him to relativity, radioactivity, and nuclear science.
And the result of those conversations is often synchrony, in which all the oscillators begin to move as one.
The resulting positive feedback process led to a runaway, accelerating outbreak of synchrony, in which many oscillators rushed to join the emerging consensus.
In 1995, the biologists David Welsh and Steve Reppert at Massachusetts General Hospital discovered that the brain does contain a population of oscillators with distributed natural frequencies, which do pull one another into synchrony, and which do make a more accurate oscillator en masse than individually.
This approximation is the sociological analog of the all-to-all coupling we encountered in the simplest oscillator models, where every firefly can see every other.
One set their sealer back to zero, and the oscillator began again to tick.
Like any other biological population, these oscillators were bound to be diverse: Some would be inherently faster than others, preferring to fire 12 times a second, while others might run slow, firing only 8 times a second, though most would be somewhere in the middle, with natural frequencies close to 10 cycles a second.
And as for nonlinear techniques, the few that were available were restricted to very small systems, like a single oscillator or two coupled oscillators.
For the kind of question he was asking, about the population dynamics of thousands of interacting nonlinear oscillators, he would have to find his own way.
He made sure he was out of the field effect of the miniature microwave oscillator, what Berrier had described as an updated, state-of-the-art Tesla Coil.
The convolver that she needed was little more than a nonlinear oscillator, and there were resistors and capacitors in the signal generator that could perform dual functions.