oscillator
A tuned electronic circuit used to generate a continuous output waveform.
Other meanings
An instrument for measuring rigidity by the torsional oscillations of a weighted wire.
A pattern that returns to its original state, in the same orientation and position, after a finite number of generations.
Related words
- nanooscillator
- suboscillator
- wobbulator
- wobulator
- Armstrong oscillator
- Meissner oscillator
- simple harmonic oscillator
- electronic oscillator
- harmonic oscillator
- Hartley oscillator
- Oudin oscillator
- piezoelectric oscillator
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