Potentiometers

Word POTENTIOMETERS
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Definitions and meanings of "Potentiometers"

What do we mean by potentiometers?

A user-adjustable 3 terminal variable resistor that can be used as a voltage divider.

An instrument that measures a voltage by opposing it with a precise fraction of a known voltage, and without drawing current from the unknown source.

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The word "potentiometers" in example sentences

In Audacity, you see the two 'potentiometers' at the top? ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Discover Electronics Kit contains a slew of standard components like resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors, potentiometers, LEDs, a timer integrated circuit, a breadboard to connect everything together, and of course an instruction manual with a variety of projects. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This mouse uses two perpendicular wheels attached to analog potentiometers to track movement. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the end, I took the ~$10 worth of potentiometers home with me, where they sit waiting for a new project. ❋ Unknown (2008)

At any rate, I was out running errands the other weekend and saw a RadioShack, remembering that I needed a couple of potentiometers for an amplifier I was working on, I stopped to make my purchase. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But, I couldn't remember the exact values of the potentiometers I needed so I grabbed all they had, paid with cash and was on my way. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When Pete tried to take back some potentiometers he'd paid for the day before with cash, the clerk refused to give him any sort of refund — even a store credit — without Pete's physical address. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I went back the following day to return the un-opened potentiometers that I did not need - receipt in hand. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Originally, these MIDI sequencers were designed to function the control of voltage interface, which in turn elected a number of potentiometers above 8, 16 or above. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The MOSFET is carefully tuned to run in a condition that is outside of the usual envelope of operation; and is sent by the careful tuning of potentiometers into a wild "runaway" state that generates many very sharp and narrow pulses. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When I hosted a radio show from 1982 to 1984, I twirled pots potentiometers and dials and knobs and flipped toggle switches and had me all kinds of fun! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Workers assemble semiconductors, resistors, potentiometers, and other parts onto a printed circuit board, and then solder these components to the board. ❋ Everett M. Rogers (1995)

For example, the “Blue Team” had promised to get out a customer order on a particular day, but were held up by a lack of potentiometers, which only arrived in midday. ❋ Everett M. Rogers (1995)

Pears are picked using precision calibrated ripeness gauges called penetrometers or potentiometers. ❋ Adam Leith Gollner (2008)

The blue potentiometers allow for adjustability and fine tuning of the power sent to each solenoid. ❋ Unknown (2006)

One difference is in the connection to switches, which act as hard stops for the plucker (brown connector with cable coming out, in middle of board, behind blue potentiometers). ❋ Unknown (2006)

Ditto for the giggling British tinkerer who set up a complex system of wires, sensors and potentiometers in order to tell time by measuring the deterioration of a prawn-and-mayonnaise sandwich. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They are hand built using only the finest materials available including military spec. potentiometers, knobs, and scratch/corrosive resistant front panel stock used by the US Navy... no chips whatsoever in the audio path. ❋ Unknown (2005)

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