potentiometer
IPA: pʌtˈɛnʃiˈɑmʌtɝ
noun
- (electronics) A user-adjustable three-terminal variable resistor that can be used as a voltage divider.
- (physics) 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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Examples of "potentiometer" in Sentences
- Tom adjusted the thermograph potentiometer to zero deflection and checked the circuit once more.
- -- The potentiometer is the electrical equivalent of the chemical balance, or balance arm scales.
- Basically ABC proved that if you bypass a potentiometer with a resistor, you can spoof the potentiometer setting.
- A current from the dry cell _Ba_ is constantly flowing through the main, or so-called potentiometer circuit, _ABCDGEF_.
- An MOS transistor in parallel with your power-level potentiometer would be one way to do it, with control at the MOS gate.
- "potentiometer" or "gynecological," and at times I've been obsessed with trying to recall a word I knew existed but which I couldn't remember for some reason.
- However, by purchasing and inserting a miniphone to miniphone "potentiometer" read "volume control" in line with his setup, the output of the record player/stereo reciever can be reduced before the input to the computer.
- The acoustic tones from the piezos and the electric tones from the magnetic pickups can be blended together with a constant-grade potentiometer, meaning any combination of the two tones can be achieved from control and blended through the same output.
- I know most of you are thinking: "That is a small motor encased in a plastic tube, attached to a potentiometer and a pushswitch, so that some weird electric guitar player can use it to excite his guitar strings and magnetic pickups and generate an annoying electromagnetic whine."
- I know this may sound daunting but it's a matter of opening up the flash, discharging the capacitor very important i.e life threatening: an analogue voltmeter across the connections will do the trick disconnecting the two wires from the light sensor and soldering them onto a logarithmic potentiometer which will cost you about £1.30 from Maplin.
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