integrator
- noun
- /ˈɪntɪˌɡreɪtər/
- Archaic
- We sometimes call such a system "marginally stable," in that one of its modes is a naked integrator with a pole at the origin of the complex plane.
It was an Army funded electronic numerical integrator.
- It was an Army funded electronic numerical integrator.
Examples
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Integrators avoid that problem by using an operational amplifier to sum the incident signal for an exposure period prior to digitization.
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The received echoes in the form of voltages are then fed into an echo integrator, which squares and sums the voltage samples.
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So what's the output of the integrator become one?
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OK, so I took my my double integrator dynamics, I discretized my space.
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A common misconception is that integrators are noisy.
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This term cannot be evaluated in Joel's model because the integrator state means the DC gain tends to infinity.
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Photon counters and integrators.
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On the other hand, integrators cannot reject Compton-scattered and fluorescent x-rays in monochromatic experiments because they sum the signal from all stopped x-rays in a given pixel during an exposure.
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The output of the echo integrator is proportional to the density of the fish insonified (Dragesund and Olsen, 1965; Forbes and Nakken, 1972; Burczynski, 1982).
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The engineer used an integrator to calculate the area under the curve of the complex data set.
Synonyms
A person or tool that finds size, amount and degree
A tool that measures the area of an irregular flat shape by tracing its edge
How Specialized
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Etymology
Integrator comes from the Latin word integer meaning 'whole' and from integrate meaning 'to make whole'. A measuring integrator finds an area by adding many small parts like slices to make the whole area, which is why the name fits.