Look up: attenuator

1. Attenuator
   A device to reduce the level of sound or light at its source.
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2. Attenuator
   A circuit that provides reduction of the amplitude of an electrical signal without introducing appreciable phase or frequency distortion.
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3. attenuator
   [n] - an electrical device for attenuating the strength of an electrical signal
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4. Attenuator
   A device used to increase the attenuation of an Optical Fibre link, generally used to ensure that the signal at the receive end is not too strong.
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5. Attenuator
   A two port circuit or device that reduces the amplitude of an input signal by a desired amount typically expressed in decibels (dB). Attenuators may be comprised of fixed resistors. PIN diodes or FET's, or combinations of these. See also: Attenuation.
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6. attenuator
   a two-port device designed to supply at the output port a power less than the incident power at the input port Category: Electrical engineering and energy • Long devices which lie generally head to sea and extract energy gradually from the waves running along them. Category: Electrica...
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7. attenuator
   <molecular biology> An RNA sequence that regulates the expression of certain genes by terminating transcription. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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8. attenuator
   noun an electrical device for attenuating the strength of an electrical signal
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9. attenuator
   device for reducing the value of an electrical quantity according to a determined ratio
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10. attenuator
    a linear passive two-port device designed to supply an output signal of power less than that of the input signal, without modifying the other characteristics of the signal NOTE - The attenuation provided by an attenuator may be fixed or adjustable.
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11. attenuator
    a two-port device designed to supply at the output port a power less than the incident power at the input port
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12. Attenuator
    In electronics, an attenuator is a network used to deliberately reduce the input signal to some piece of apparatus, or to reduce the degree of amplification of signals of particular frequencies.
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13. attenuator
    Type: Term Pronunciation: ă-ten′yū-ā-tŏr, -tōr Definitions: 1. An electrical system of resistors and capacitors used to reduce the strength of electrical signals, as in ultrasonography. 2. The terminator sequence in DNA at which attenuation occurs; located between the ...
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14. attenuator
    used in e.s.r, the attenuation of the microwave power passing along a waveguide is achieved by means of a metal plate placed along the axis of the waveguide. The degree of attenuation increases as the plate is moved away from the wall of the waveguide toward the center. In IR and UV spectroscopy, the attenuator is a toothed comb, grid, ...
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15. Attenuator
    A device which reduces the amount of energy reaching a sensor. Attenuators are typically used when the radiant energy would saturate a detector. The QNDS,QNDS2 and QNDS3 filters are attenuators that reduce flux density at the detector by factors of 10, 100 and 1000, respectively.
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16. Attenuator
    (electronics) An `attenuator` is an electronic device that reduces the amplitude or power of a signal without appreciably distorting its waveform. An attenuator is effectively the opposite of an amplifier, though the two work by different methods. While an amplifier provides gain, an attenuat...
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17. Attenuator
    (genetics) The `attenuator` plays an important regulatory role in prokaryotic cells because of the absence of the nucleus in prokaryotic organisms. The attenuator refers to a specific regulatory sequence that, when transcribed into RNA, forms hairpin structures to stop transcription when cert...
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