Break-circuit
(n.) A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit. |
Circuit
(n.) The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit |
Circuit
(n.) The circumference of, or distance round, any space |
Circuit
(n.) That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown. |
Circuit
(n.) The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits. |
Circuit
(n.) A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher. |
Circuit
(n.) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice. |
Circuit
(n.) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors. |
Circuit
(n.) Circumlocution. |
Circuit
(v. i.) To move in a circle |
Circuit
(v. t.) To travel around. |
Crookes tube
() A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects |
Electron
(n.) Amber |
Geissler tube
() A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it |
Pitot's tube
() A bent tube used to determine the velocity of running water, by placing the curved end under water, and observing the height to which the fluid rises in the tube |
Short circuit
() A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity. |
Short-circuit
(v. t.) To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance. |
Timer
(n.) A timekeeper |
Tube
(n.) A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes |
Tube
(n.) A telescope. |
Tube
(n.) A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance. |
Tube
(n.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla. |
Tube
(n.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction. |
Tube
(n.) A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through. |
Tube
(n.) A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm. |
Tube
(n.) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk. |
Tube
(v. t.) To furnish with a tube |
Tube-nosed
(a.) Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak |
Tube-nosed
(a.) Belonging to the Tubinares. |
Tube-shell
(n.) Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell. |
Water tube
() One of a system of tubular excretory organs having external openings, found in many invertebrates. They are believed to be analogous in function to the kidneys of vertebrates. See Illust. under Trematodea, and Sporocyst. |
lap circle
circuit | movement once around a course, he drove an extra lap just for insurance |
tour
circuit | a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area, they took an extended tour of Europe, we took a quick circuit of the park, a ten-day coach circuit of the island |
| electron microscopy | microscopy with the use of electron microscopes |
electron spin resonance
ESR
electron paramagnetic resonance | microwave spectroscopy in which there is resonant absorption of radiation by a paramagnet |
| neural tube | a tube of ectodermal tissue in the embryo from which the brain and spinal cord develop |
harpy harpy bat
tube-nosed bat
tube-nosed fruit bat | any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes |
| tube foot | tentacular tubular process of most echinoderms (starfish and sea urchins and holothurians) having a sucker at the end and used for e.g. locomotion and respiration |
| acorn tube | a small vacuum tube, used at high frequencies |
AND circuit
AND gate | a circuit in a computer that fires only when all of its inputs fire |
blowgun
blowpipe blowtube blow tube | a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing |
blowtube
blow tube
blowpipe | a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat |
| boron counter tube | a proportional counter tube for counting neutrons |
breech
rear of barrel
rear of tube | opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded |
| bridge bridge circuit | a circuit consisting of two branches ( arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected |
capillary
capillary tube
capillary tubing | a tube of small internal diameter, holds liquid by capillary action |
cathodeay tube
CRT | a vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen |
circuit
electrical circuit
electric circuit | an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow |
circuit board
circuit card
board card plug-in
add-in | a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities |
circuit breaker
breaker | a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded |
closed circuit
loop | a complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates |
color tube
colour tube
color television tube
colour television tube
color TV tube
colour TV tube | a television tube that displays images in full color |
| computer circuit | a circuit that is part of a computer |
control circuit
negative feedback circuit | a feedback circuit that subtracts from the input |
| counter tube | a measuring instrument for counting individual ionizing events |
| Crookes tube | the original gas-discharge cathodeay tube |
crystal oscillator
quartz oscillator | an oscillator that produces electrical oscillations at a frequency determined by the physical characteristics of a piezoelectric quartz crystal |
diode rectifying tube
rectifying valve | a thermionic tube having two electrodes, used as a rectifier |
driven well
tube well | a well made by driving a tube into the earth to a stratum that bears water |
| egg timer | a sandglass that runs for three minutes, used to time the boiling of eggs |
| electron accelerator | collider that consists of an accelerator that collides electrons and positrons |
| electron gun | the electrode that is the source of electrons in a cathodeay tube or electron microscope, consists of a cathode that emits a stream of electrons and the electrostatic or electromagnetic apparatus that focuses it |
| electron microscope | a microscope that is similar in purpose to a light microscope but achieves much greater resolving power by using a parallel beam of electrons to illuminate the object instead of a beam of light |
| electron multiplier | a vacuum tube that amplifies a flow of electrons |
| endotracheal tube | a catheter that is inserted into the trachea through the mouth or nose in order to maintain an open air passage or to deliver oxygen or to permit the suctioning of mucus or to prevent aspiration of the stomach contents |
feedback circuit
feedback loop | a circuit that feeds back some of the output to the input of a system |
| gas-discharge tube | a tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas |
Geiger tube
Geiger-Muller tube | an ionization chamber contained in a tube in a Geiger counter |
| glow tube | a gas-discharge tube consisting of a cold cathode and a diode in a tube filled with gas, the color of the glow depends on the particular gas |
| inner tube | an inflatable rubber tube that fits inside the casing of a pneumatic tire |
integrated circuit
microcircuit | a microelectronic computer circuit incorporated into a chip or semiconductor, a whole system rather than a single component |
ionization chamber
ionization tube | a measuring instrument that measures the amount of ionizing radiation |
kinescope
picture tube
television tube | a cathodeay tube in a television receiver, translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen |
| Kundt's tube | a measuring instrument used to measure the speed of sound |
| lens electron lens | electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons |
light circuit
lighting circuit | wiring that provides power to electric lights |
local oscillator
heterodyne oscillator | an oscillator whose output heterodynes with the incoming radio signal to produce sum and difference tones |
metro
tube underground
subway system
subway | an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city), in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground' |
NAND circuit
NAND gate | a logic gate that produces an output that is the inverse of the output of an AND gate |
| nasotracheal tube | a tube inserted into the trachea through the nose and pharynx, used to deliver oxygen |
neon lamp
neon induction lamp
neon tube | a lamp consisting of a small gas-discharge tube containing neon at low pressure, luminescence is produced by the action of currents at high frequencies that are wrapped a few turns around the tube |