oscillator

Examples

• All

• Silver device in the middle here is the oscillator, the clock for the chip.

• The pulses emanated from a small oscillator (Radioear B-71) that is used in clinical audiometry for bone-conduction testing.

  Academic text (2011)

• Basically, the oscillator on your fan allows me to see both in the living room and in the kitchen.

  Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

• If we had an audio oscillator I could find the waves and...

  A Sound of Thunder (2005)

• We've rigged the original crystal to a variable oscillator, here.

  Invaders from Mars (1953)

• The STM-1 Monitor with integrated oscillator for use with LabVIEW on your PC.

  Academic text (2004)

• The company's first product was an oscillator used to test sound equipment.

• The new technology dwarfs the breakthrough oscillator that launched the company.

• Well, it should be enough to buy an oscillator to extend the range of our radio.

Synonyms

V

vibrator

vsoscillator

• NSFW

40 6.1

A small machine that moves quickly to massage and relax muscles

generates regular oscillations for signals or alternating current rather than mainly for stimulation

P

pulsator

vsoscillator

• Specialized

1 8.2

A device that makes regular pulses to control a machine or liquid flow

produces continuous regular oscillations rather than discrete pulses

Compounds

L

local oscillator

• Specialized

1 7.9

A steady radio signal made inside a radio to mix with incoming signals

C

crystal oscillator

• Specialized

1 6.9

An electronic device that makes a very steady electrical signal at one frequency using a small quartz crystal

Q

quartz oscillator

• Specialized

1 6.0

An electronic device that makes a very steady electric signal by using a vibrating quartz crystal

H

heterodyne oscillator

• Specialized

8.9

A circuit that makes a radio signal to combine with incoming signals to make new frequencies in radios

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology