oscillator
pronunciation
How to pronounce oscillator in British English:
UK [ˈɒsɪleɪtə(r)]
How to pronounce oscillator in American English:
US [ˈɑsɪleɪtə(r)]
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- Noun:
- generator that produces sonic oscillations or alternating current
Word Origin
- oscillator (n.)
- agent noun in Latin form from oscillate; 1835 of persons, 1889 in reference to electric currents.
Example
- 1. The oscillator will give him away .
- 2. Leung 's team are using a " chaotic oscillator " to generate their signal .
- 3. Each node was represented by an electrical oscillator that approximated a neuron 's activity .
- 4. We will modify the animation we did before for the undamped oscillator .
- 5. Researchers have fashioned tiny beams of semiconductor nanometers wide and micrometers long . Such a beam , or " oscillator , " will vibrate at a set frequency like a guitar string , and according to quantum theory , it can absorb or emit energy only in dollops or quanta whose size is proportional to the beam 's frequency .