oscilloscope

Definition of oscilloscope

What does oscilloscope mean?

noun

electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities
- example: First, try to confirm the timing by oscilloscope.
- synonyms: cathode-ray oscilloscope / CRO / scope
- more generic: electronic equipment = equipment that involves the controlled conduction of electrons
- part of: cardiac monitor / heart monitor = a piece of electronic equipment for continual observation of the function of the heart; monitor / monitoring device = display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor; microwave radar / radar / radio detection and ranging / radiolocation = measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects
- part: cathode-ray 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

Alternative definition

noun

An electronic measuring instrument that creates a visible two-dimensional graph, on a screen, of one or more continuously varying voltages or currents.

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Printed encyclopedias and other books with definitions about oscilloscope

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The Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors (1999)

Handbook by John G. Webster

The oscilloscope is an instrument that presents a graphical display of its input voltage as a function of time.

Electronic Circuits: Fundamentals and Applications (2002)

by Michael H. Tooley

The oscilloscope An oscilloscope is an extremely comprehensive and versatile item of test equipment which can be used in a variety of measuring applications, the most important of which is the display of timerelated voltage waveforms.

Designing Embedded Systems with PIC Microcontrollers (2006)

Principles and Applications by Tim Wilmshurst

An oscilloscope is the most powerful general-purpose instrument available in the electronics world. It allows simple and reasonably accurate measurements of voltage and time to be made, especially if they are DC or periodic.

Operator, organizational, DS and GS maintenance manual (1981)

electrical repair shop, guided missile system semitrailer mounted (4935-01-094-6722) and mechanical repair shop, guided missile system semitrailer mounted (4935-01-094-6723), (Pershing 1a Field Artillery Missile System). by United States. Dept. of the Army

OSCILLOSCOPE (FIG. 1-22). a. General. The oscilloscope is a portable high- frequency instrument capable of accurately displaying ...

Encyclopedia of microcomputers. 23 (1999)

by Allen Kent

It used a modified oscilloscope to visualize and analyze the stability of aircraft. A few years later, the SAGE air-defense system used a vector screen to display radar information. SAGE employed a light pen to allow users to identify objects on ...

Science and Technology Encyclopedia (2000)

by The University of Chicago Press, Leszek Koakowski

See also ELECTRIC CURRENT oscilloscope (cathode-ray oscilloscope) Electronic instrument in which a CATHODE-RAY TUBE (CRT) system displays how quantities, such as voltage or current, vary over a period of time. The input signal is ...

Encyclopedia of supramolecular chemistry (2004)

Mod-Z, P. 873-1648 by Jerry L. Atwood, Jonathan W. Steed

and the digital oscilloscope. (Panel B) The optical path. (Panel C) The emission monochromator (EM), photomultiplier (PM), and dye laser (DL). (Courtesy of Dr. F.N. ...