electronicadj.
/ᵻˌlɛkˈtrɒnɪk/, /ˌɛlɛkˈtrɒnɪk/, /ˌɛlᵻkˈtrɒnɪk/, /ˌɪlɛkˈtrɒnɪk/, /ˌiːlɛkˈtrɒnɪk/, U.S. /əˌlɛkˈtrɑnɪk/, /iˌlɛkˈtrɑnɪk/ 1. Physics and Chemistry. Of or relating to an electron or electrons.
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the world > matter > chemistry > atomic chemistry > [adjective] > relating to electrons
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the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > particle avoiding strong interaction > electron > [adjective]
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1902 J. A. Fleming (title) The electronic theory of electricity.
1905 A. M. Clerke Mod. Cosmogonies x. 175 An electronic theory of gravitation.
1906 J. B. Burke Orig. Life xi. 191 Three states of electronic aggregation.
1922 J. Mills Within Atom xii. 159 Only in a highly evacuated tube would there be the possibility of large electronic orbits.
1923 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Nov. 763/2 The earth's atmospheric circulation is..dependent upon the sun's electronic emissions.
1937 Discovery July 226/2 Ideas concerning electronic energy and electron levels in atoms.
1964 B. V. Rollin Introd. Electronics iii. 34 This fraction is proportional to exp (eV′/kT ) where e is the electronic charge.
1978 P. W. Atkins Physical Chem. 0.10 Electronic transitions, when electrons are shifted from one region of an atom or molecule to another, occur in the visible and ultraviolet part of the spectrum.
2006 Physica B. 390 134 A simplified model..is adopted to describe the electronic structure of the nanotubes.
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a. Of a device: operating according to the principles or methods of electronics, such as a transistor, microchip, or electron tube; operating by means of or employing such devices.
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1919 B. Gherardi & F. B. Jewett in Trans. Amer. Inst. Electr. Engineers 38 1297 For purposes of classification..we may divide repeating elements into three groups depending upon whether their moving parts consist of (a) molecular ions, (b) electrons, or (c) molecular aggregates, that is, ponderable matter in the ordinary sense. The first group we might call ‘gaseous’, the second ‘electronic’, and the third, ‘electrodynamic’.
1922 Sci. Abstr. B. 25 162 The basic advantages of electronic devices are [etc.].
1941 Science 31 Oct. 7/1 The fundamental theory of high vacuum electronic equipment.
1951 Times 23 Oct. 6/3 The electronic camera claims many advantages over its optical counterpart.
1952 A. Koestler Arrow in Blue xxix. 271 The final conclusion was suddenly present in my mind—like the result which appears on the dial of electronic calculators.
1953 Sci. News 30 70 The problem of electronic computing is basically simple, for the fundamental requirement is electrical manipulation of information.
1961 G. Millerson Technique Television Production 142 By special electronic equipment, we can place one camera's performers and/or scenery in the background picture provided by another picture source.
2007 Corrosion Sci. 49 419 Failures in electric and electronic instruments very often are linked to localized corrosion.
b. Of a musical instrument: generating sound by devices that operate according to the principles or methods of electronics rather than by directly producing mechanical vibration; (of music) using sounds generated or modified electronically and typically recorded on tape or disc.See also electronic keyboard n. (b) at Compounds.
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1930 Electronics Sept. 272/2 When orchestral and symphonic effects come into consideration, the necessary elaborations of musical scoring are even greater because electronic music gives the controlling musicians a chance of coupling, as desired, any instruments or groups of instruments.
1930 N.Y. Times 12 Oct. III. 1/5 Shades of quality, modes of attack, dynamic gradations, nuances within the vast compass of electronic instruments cannot be indicated with the traditional signs.
1939 Nature 25 June 1119/2 Electronic organs are making us acquainted with the synthesis of musical sounds.
1959 Observer 23 Aug. 7/3 Electronic music..makes use of electrically generated sounds recorded on tape and then rearranged into patterns.
1966 N. Frye in G. Lynch & D. Rampton Canad. Ess. (1991) 141 Language of this kind is surely heading in the direction indicated by the squeals and groans of electronic music.
1985 Village Voice (U.S.) 8 Jan. 64/2 The music is an electronic score by Scott Johnson.
1992 Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka) 6 Sept. (New Delhi ed.) (Colour Mag.) 13/8 The music..was electronic and one wondered about its place in such a setting.
2006 N. S. Dhaliwal Tourism v. 71 He composed electronic dance music, synthesising a hybrid sound with samples taken from hip hop, film scores, indeed from anything.
c. Using or involving the storage or transmission of information by electronic means; carried out or performed using electronic devices or computers.
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1953 Philos. Sci. 20 9 The more important terms used in electronic communication and computer engineering.
1953 Math. Tables & Other Aids Computation 7 59/1 The numerical solution of a partial differential equation on the IBM Type 701 Electronic Data Processing Machines.
1968 Computers & Humanities 2 145 The computer-generated concordance is probably the..most useful application of electronic data processing to literary texts.
1973 Black Panther 21 July 2/3 The FBI, through their wire~tapping,..was practicing electronic surveillance.
1983 C. Thomas Firefox Down ii. ix. 205 He was at home amid the paraphernalia of electronic warfare and computer strategy.
1985 Times 10 Dec. 24/1 (headline) Bleak outlook for electronic offices of the future.
1998 Independent 31 Mar. i. 8/2 (heading) Plans to introduce electronic voting in the House of Commons appeared last night to have been dropped.
2006 C. Anderson Long Tail vii. 115 The field of ‘information theory’ was built around the problem of pulling coherent signals from random electrical noise, first in radio broadcasts and then in any sort of electronic transmission.
3. Of or relating to electronics; (of a person holding an occupation) trained or expert in electronics.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > [adjective]
electronic1932
1932 San Mateo (Calif.) Times & Daily Leader 3 Dec. 5/4 An electrynx, or ‘electric palate’, that..indicates the ripeness of apples..has been developed by R. C. Hitchcock, electronic engineer.
1943 Kingston (N.Y.) Daily Freeman 18 June 5/2 Graduate electrical engineers and electronic physicists are urgently needed as commissioned officers.
1959 M. McLuhan Let. 16 May (1987) 252 The Electronic Age is one in which information comes to everybody in any job.
1971 Physics Bull. Apr. 195/3 This..illustrates the central part to be played by the electronics industry, and the electronic technician in particular.
1992 IndustryWeek 7 Dec. 70/3 The electronic industry perked up in 1992 following essentially three years of stagnation.
1998 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 7 Mar. 2/1 The challenge of preserving personal privacy in the Electronic Age.
2001 Kenyon Rev. & Standard Spring 149 The wartime need for electronic technicians had led to the introduction of a new subject in the Natural Sciences Tripos called ‘physics with radio’.
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electronic banking n. banking transactions carried out electronically (in later use esp. via the internet), without involving the physical depositing or receipt of cash or cheques; maintenance of a bank account by means of computer and telecommunications equipment and software.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > types of
private banking1757
merchant banking1772
corporate banking1811
commercial banking1819
investment banking1883
wild cat1896
electronic banking1957
Eurobanking1961
telephone banking1966
telebanking1974
1957 Columbus (Nebraska) Daily Telegram 14 Feb. 14/4 (heading) Chicago suburb has electronic banking.
1967 Forbes 1 Apr. 43/3 With electronic banking, it will become far more difficult for small, suburban banks to compete with big city banks.
1975 Business Week 10 Mar. 26/2 At issue is..whether an electronic banking terminal legally counts as a bank.
1989 Which? Sept. 421/1 Despite the increase in electronic banking, you still think the personal touch is important.
2001 Toronto Star (Electronic ed.) 17 Jan. Despite the convenience of electronic banking, many Canadians still value having access to branches when they need it.
electronic benefits transfer n. (also electronic benefit transfer) originally U.S. the electronic delivery of credit to a recipient of government benefits (esp. food stamps), usually via a payment card with which the recipient may make purchases.
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1984 Supermarket News 11 June 1 His company is the computer consulting firm directing the Reading, Pa., food-stamp electronic benefits transfer test.
1998 World in 1998 (Economist Publ.) 112/3 Britain hopes to distribute all social-security benefits..on electronic benefit-transfer cards by 2000.
2002 J. Geringer in P. J. Andrisani et al. New Public Managem. vii. 73 The Electronic Benefits Transfer and Health Passport..are changing the whole public health-care paradigm by giving clients greater responsibility.
electronic brain n. colloquial (a) = electronic computer n.; (b) an electronic device that is central to the control of something.
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1944 Nebraska State Jrnl. 5 Nov. a6/6 The performance here reported makes it even reasonably possible that electronic brains may be developed faster than terror weapons.
1945 Aero Products Jan. 22 An ‘electronic brain’, which helps pilots test-fly new airplanes, has been invented by flight research engineers... Technically, the device is known as a ‘flight recorder’.
1958 Listener 11 Dec. 983/1 Automatic digital calculators, sometimes called ‘electronic brains’, are just over a decade old.
1989 Motor Trend Oct. 64/3 Kickdown shifts are aided by the transmission's advanced electronic brain.
2002 Eng. Jrnl. 91 13/2 How frustrated must teachers feel who labor to teach the development of ideas..only to have their students judged by an electronic brain?
electronic cash n. = electronic money n.
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1967 A. H. Anderson et al. (title) An electronic cash and credit system.]
1982 Business Information Technol. Apr. 16 Electronic cash—or, more properly, ‘electronic funds transfer’—will affect every business in the country.
1999 Newsday (Electronic ed.) 20 Sept. It will..take time..for electronic cash to catch on. Even then, paper money and coins will likely always be an option.
2006 Information Sci. 176 1306 Blind signatures are a basic primitive for anonymous electronic cash.
electronic church n. originally and chiefly U.S. a church which broadcasts its services for a mass audience; (with the) evangelical Christian broadcasting; cf. televangelism n.
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1975 High Point (N. Carolina) Enterprise 29 Dec. 5 a/1 Equipped with a dozen TV cameras and 60 microphones, it is the most elaborate electronic church in the world.
1988 L. Martz & G. Carroll Ministry of Greed ii. 22 Their feel-good theology was one of the most extreme doctrines in the electronic church.
1998 First Things (Nexis) 1 Aug. 80 Have contemporary churches been infected by the entertainment orientations of the electronic church and the new megachurches?
electronic cigarette n. a cigarette-shaped device containing a nicotine-based liquid or other substance that is vaporized and inhaled, used to simulate the experience of smoking; cf. e-cigarette n.In quot. 1995 referring to a device producing sound and light but not producing a vaporized inhalant.
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1995 Times of India 7 Nov. 10 His [sc. Pu Danming's] invention is hand-made, nearly as large as a cigarillo. It has a white mouth-piece, a plastic tube and a turn button. Initially, he named his invention electronic cigarette because it contains a small battery and an electronic unit.
2003 AAP Newsfeed (Nexis) 14 Apr. The future of smoking may be smoke-free... Think smokeless electronic cigarettes.
2008 Independent 26 June (Extra section) 7/1 So discovering the SuperSmoker Ultimo electronic cigarette—the healthy alternative to real tobacco sticks—I feel a little like Rambo being proffered a water pistol.
2013 N.Y. Mag. 6 May 26/2 Until recently, electronic cigarettes were almost uniformly off-putting..and there was a scammy, spammy quality to their marketing.
electronic component n. (a) a constituent part of a phenomenon that is electronic in nature or origin; (b) a component that is electronic in its operation and designed to form part of a larger device.
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1934 Proc. Physical Soc. 46 92 The absorption caused by the electronic component of the ionized regions will be discussed.
1947 Math. Tables & Other Aids Computation 2 366 It will require considerably less equipment than the eniac, since the electronic components will be used in a quite different and much more efficient way.
1994 C. Pursell White Heat vi. 161 Half the ‘flyaway’ cost of civilian and military aircraft lies in the electronic components and software.
2007 Coordination Chem. Rev. 251 405/1 The disaggregation..by basic ligands has a small electronic component, but is dominated by steric factors.
electronic computer n. a computer operated electronically; = computer n. 3.
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1940 J. W. Mauchly Let. 15 Nov. in Ann. Hist. Computing (1984) 6 127 Electrical computing machine.
1940 J. W. Mauchly Let. 4 Dec. in Ann. Hist. Computing (1984) 6 127 Electronic computing machine.]
1941 J. W. Mauchly Let. 26 Apr. in Ann. Hist. Computing (1984) 6 127/2 Some of the simple components of an electronic computer have been constructed, and we find they work, so we are going on to the real job of putting the components together.
1946 Electronics Aug. 110/1 The servomechanism is part of the computer, and..computers of this type have become known as electronic computers.
1969 K.-H. Scheer & W. Ernsting Radiant Dome i. ii. 31 These are the unassailable final results of our electronic computer.
2000 Wired Jan. 154/2 Ever more powerful computers are being pursued on many fronts—not just massively parallel versions of the electronic computers we have today, but biocomputers..and quantum computers.
electronic countermeasure n. Military a tactical measure involving the use of electronic equipment to disrupt or impair enemy communications, radar, missile guidance systems, or other electronic hardware; usually in plural (abbreviated ECM).
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1949 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 16 Oct. 5/2 The parallel development of electronic counter-measures against both these contrivances [sc. ground-to-air guided missiles and radar detection devices].
1992 J. Peters & J. Nichol Tornado Down xvi. 147 He failed to ask what electronic countermeasures it contained, what systems, what radars its complex electronics could defeat.
electronic data interchange n. the electronic transmission of business data, such as orders and invoices, between computer systems in different organizations in accordance with an established protocol; a standard established for such data exchange; frequently attributive; abbreviated EDI.
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society > communication > telecommunication > transmission of computerized information > [noun]
electronic data interchange1975
telematics1978
1975 J. I. Carley et al. (title) Preliminary functional specification for a prototype electronic data interchange system: shippers, banks, forwarders, carriers.
1979 Jrnl. Commerce (N.Y.) 30 Oct. 31/8 Possible inclusion of a reporting capability in an information exchange system through Electronic Data Interchange.
1987 Financial Rev. (Sydney) 4 Aug. 28/2 The Australian Product Number Association..yesterday released its draft standards for electronic data interchange (EDI).
2000 Red Herring Mar. 328/3 Point-of-sale information which had previously been faxed to headquarters for analysis was replaced by electronic data interchange documents ported via the Web.
electronic engineer n. a person qualified or skilled in electronic engineering; = electronics engineer n. at electronics n. Compounds 2.
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1932 San Mateo (Calif.) Times & Daily Leader 3 Dec. 5/4 An electrynx, or ‘electric palate’, that..indicates the ripeness of apples..has been developed by R. C. Hitchcock, electronic engineer.
1961 in M. G. Say Electr. Engineer's Ref. Bk. (ed. 10) i. p. iii (advt.) Hanna curves..are widely used by electronic engineers in the design of iron cored chokes and transformers carrying both A.C. and D.C. currents.
2003 Independent 23 Jan. (Review section) 21/2 David Chesmore, an entomologist and electronic engineer at the University of York, has developed a bioacoustic device which has the ability to identify insects by the sounds they make.
electronic engineering n. a discipline concerned with the practical use of electronics and with the design and use of electronic devices; = electronics engineering n. at electronics n. Compounds 2.
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1943 Kingston (N.Y.) Daily Freeman 18 June 5/2 (heading) Signal Corps needs men for electronic engineering.
1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 1026/2 He proceeded to University, where he obtained a top-second degree in electronic engineering.
2001 Surveyor May 23 (advt.) Responsible for repair and maintenance of traffic signals equipment. Ideally suited to a person qualified in electronic engineering (HNC/ONC).
electronic flash n. a flash or (collectively) flashes produced by an electrical discharge in a gas-filled tube and used in photography; (also) a camera accessory for generating such a flash.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > parts and accessories of camera > [noun] > flash-gun or tube
photoflash1926
flash-gun1930
speed flash1940
speed gun1940
speed lamp1940
speed-light1940
flash1945
flash tube1945
electronic flash1946
ring flash1954
1946 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 3 Nov. d8/6 (advt.) Camera,..film, bulbs, electronic flash unit.
1949 British Birds 42 240 The photographs shown..were taken by high-speed electronic flash.
1971 Amateur Photographer 13 Jan. 42 A man came into the shop and said he would like to buy a small electronic flash he had seen in the window.
2002 Amer. Photo May 32/4 He lights subjects with electronic flash, and lots of it: 30,000 watt-seconds in a pop.
electronic funds transfer n. (also electronic fund transfer) the transfer of money between bank accounts by electronic means.
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1969 Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 4 Apr. c7/2 One new service is an elaborate ‘electronic fund transfer system’ through which a retailer will ultimately be able to..have the amount you owe him automatically transferred from your account to his.
1993 Canad. Business Mar. 90/3 In its banking software, it added an array of functions for purposes such as..electronic funds transfer and cross-selling.
2000 Dawn (Karachi) 16 Apr. 16/6 This will necessitate the implementation of electronic funds transfer..through the local presence of networks such as SWIFT.
electronic heating n. = dielectric heating n. at dielectric n. and adj. Additions.
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1943 Gen. Electric Rev. 46 675 (title) The theory and practice of industrial electronic heating.
1946 Sci. News Let. 26 Jan. 53 The drying and curing of rubber by electronic heating is six times faster than conventional processes.
1998 G. J. Hallman & D. L. Denlinger Temperature Sensitivity in Insects i. 2 Heat, including solarization, electronic heating, and steam, is being studied as a replacement for methyl bromide fumigation of planting beds.
electronic intelligence n. originally U.S. military intelligence gathered using electronic devices; cf. ELINT n.
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1953 Zanesville (Ohio) Signal 6 Nov. 4/5 Devices which are part of the systems used..to take (electronic) intelligence.
1995 Sci. Amer. Dec. 77/1 Electronic intelligence today depends heavily on large aircraft filled with sensors.
electronic keyboard n. (a) a keyboard on a typewriter, musical instrument, etc., which operates electronically; (b) a (usually portable) musical instrument consisting of a piano-style keyboard and integrated microelectronics; a synthesizer.
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1938 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Northwestern 10 Aug. 14/2 Keyboard Concert, demonstration of electronic keyboard organ.
1953 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 1 June 4 (advt.) Hear..George Moxey play the Clavioline the wonder electronic keyboard which reproduces all instrumental tones.
1991 Gramophone Jan. 1390/2 No doubt the close recording quality, which makes the piano sound like an electronic keyboard, is partly responsible for the impression of total aridity.
1997 J. Seabrook Deeper i. 30 The ease of typing on the electronic keyboard made it possible to write almost at the speed of thought, in riffs.
2004 NeuroImage 22 1385/1 The stimuli used..were abstract sounds that had been generated from an electronic keyboard and recorded on compact disk.
electronic mailbox n. (originally) a place where a document to be sent by electronic (facsimile) mail may be deposited for subsequent processing (cf. electronic mail n. 1); (now usually, Computing) a place on a computer or network where emails to a particular user are held; = mailbox n. 3b.
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society > computing and information technology > network > [noun] > electronic messaging > facility for retrieving
electronic mailbox1960
voicebank1978
voice mailbox1980
society > communication > telecommunication > transmission of computerized information > [noun] > electronic mail > facility for receiving or storing
electronic mailbox1960
mailbox1971
1960 Independent (Long Beach, Calif.) 5 Nov. b7 He inscribes the data on a speed-mail form and drops it into an electronic mailbox.
1981 Computerworld 28 Dec. ETC/EM features electronic mailboxes, automatic message routing and broadcasting, correspondence archiving, [etc.].
1999 J. Naughton Brief Hist. Future (2001) ix. 150 A modem, some software and an account with an Internet Service Provider which gives you an electronic mailbox.
2004 N.Y. Times Mag. 4 Apr. 44/3 That was one of many e-mail messages to industry lobbyists, for Kelliher's electronic mailbox was soon pinging with activity.
electronic money n. money represented, held, and exchanged in electronic form.
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1966 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Amer. 3 July 11/1 We will be able to shop for all manner of products—food, clothing, household items—and..will be able to pay for them with ‘electronic money’.
1967 Forbes 1 Apr. 42 (title) Electronic money.
1971 Econ. Jrnl. 81 728 Electronic money, involving instantaneous deposit accounting and debt settlement, is the next logical step in the long evolution of payment media.
1993 Locus June 13/2 We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.
2000 Toronto Star (Electronic ed.) 17 June Electronic money will also change the role of banks and allow other non-bank competitors to introduce electronic money to settle many different kinds of transactions.
electronic notebook n. (a) a small portable tape recorder (now rare); (b) a small hand-held or portable computer (typically a tablet computer) providing the functions of a notebook or personal organizer; cf. notebook n. 2.
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1962 Guardian 25 Apr. 8/6 The Stuzi Memo-cord..plays for an hour on four tracks. This ‘electronic notebook’ is said to be much in use by American business executives.
1970 Current Anthropol. 11 21/3 A final word about pocket-sized tape recorders. Besides their obvious uses as ‘electronic notebooks’ in the field, they can provide background data for photographs and films.
1978 Interfaces 9 73 Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co. markets an electronic notebook which has a memory for names, telephone numbers, appointments, bank accounts, etc.
1982 Financial Times (Nexis) 21 Oct. 11 Rapid advances in computer technology are opening up a new market in portable terminals—electronic notebooks—currently growing at 30 per cent a year in the US.
1994 K. Perry Business & European Community vii. 140 A microprocessor chip..lies at the heart of Apple's Newton portable electronic notebook.
2000 Press Gaz. 14 Jan. 13/4 The introduction of wireless connectivity through electronic notebooks and Web phones.
2017 Times (Nexis) 24 Apr. 45 Now a mobile electronic notebook is helping them [sc. police officers] to spend more time on the streets.
electronic organizer n. a pocket-sized computer providing the functions of a personal organizer; cf. personal digital assistant n. 1.
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1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 July c5/1 The image of the shoe box remains in the popular perception of family accounting, and so it is not surprising that someone has come out with an electronic organizer that goes by the same name... Shoebox deals with appointments, to-do reminders and expenses.
1997 ‘Q’ Deadmeat 86 ‘What's your mobile phone number and URL?’ asked Hunter, taking out his electronic organiser.
2000 F. Bleasdale Rubber Gloves or Jimmy Choos vi. 140 They had given me a briefcase and an electronic organiser. I couldn't think of more useless presents.
electronic publishing n. publishing in a digital or electronic format, such as on a CD or the internet, rather than in printed form.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > [noun] > electronic
electronic publishing1963
e-publishing1989
1963 Winnipeg Free Press 15 Jan. 4/4 (headline) News executives watch electronic publishing.
1977 U.S. News & World Rep. 5 Sept. 56/2 The genesis of electronic publishing at U.S. News & World Report dates back five years.
1985 P. Laurie Databases vi. 122 Most of this money goes on paper, printing and physical distribution, and is, of course, saved in electronic publishing.
2007 NDT & E Internat. 40 1/1 Electronic publishing has brought us..new conveniences and opportunities that paper-based publishing could never have offered.
electronic purse n. a smart card or other device on which an amount of electronic money can be deposited and stored, and which may be used to pay for inexpensive items.
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1987 Financial Times 27 May 11 Under Midland's experiment, students at the university will use the smart card as a sort of electronic purse which keeps records. Each card will have a spending limit written into it.
1995 Economist 8 Apr. 97/3 When lawyers request a particular article from a database, the chip subtracts the cost of the information from its electronic purse.
2001 Card News (Electronic ed.) 24 Jan. With a single card, users can purchase food and merchandise from on-site vendors using electronic purse, credit, or debit functions.
electronic shopping n. the purchase of goods by computer, (in later use) esp. via the internet.
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1959 Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pa.) 1 Dec. 5/2 (heading) Future Electronic Shopping Will Eliminate Check-Outs.
1969 Times 1 July 23/4 New Sears is beginning to think about possibilities of ‘at home electronic shopping’, using television and automated ordering systems.
1981 T. R. Licklider in Creative Computing Apr. 78/1 Besides access to the above information bases, the utilities and computer bulletin boards also offer electronic mail, electronic shopping, user-to-user ‘chatting’,..and the opportunity to try programming in a dozen languages.
1995 Economist 1 July (Internet Survey Suppl.) 21/1 The Internet's most passionate evangelists believe that its radical heritage is not about to be swept away by a tidal wave of conventionality and electronic shopping.
2000 Evening Post (Bristol) (Electronic ed.) 16 Sept. For those who look on a trip to The Mall as the next worse thing to being thrown into a pit of deadly scorpions, electronic shopping does have a lot of advantages.
electronic signature n. (a) Banking a series of characters printed in magnetic ink at the bottom of a cheque, etc., to facilitate sorting; (b) Computing data added to or associated with an electronic document and intended to serve the same purpose as a written signature, esp. (in later use) when added or attached in a way that protects against tampering or forgery; cf. digital signature n. at digital n. and adj. Compounds 2.
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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > personal identification > [noun] > other methods of identification
anthropometrics1881
bertillonage1892
Bertillon system1896
Bertillon measurement1928
pink triangle1950
electronic signature1957
genetic profile1959
genetic fingerprint1969
digital signature1976
PIN1976
PIN code1979
racial profiling1989
1957 Troy (N.Y.) Record 10 Sept. 26/4 (advt.) It works only when the electronic signature on your check or deposit slip gives it positive and automatic proof that it is handling the right job for the right customer.
1976 Business Week (Nexis) 13 Sept. 94 b The key to confidentiality is a so-called electronic signature. Each company executive is assigned a 10-digit code known only to him, his secretary, and the computer.
2001 My Business May 51/1 This gives an electronic signature over the internet the same legal validity as a traditional signature on paper.
electronic skin n. a thin layer of material containing electronic sensors which designed to mimic some of the properties of human skin, esp. its sensitivity to pressure and to temperature.
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1980 C. Panati Breakthroughs xix. 229 (caption) Pressure-sensitive electronic skin will make the hand feel almost real to the user.
2004 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 27 9966/1 Good artificial ‘electronic skin’ with a large area and mechanical flexibility is not yet available.
2014 Sci. Amer. July 14/1 ‘Electronic skin’ is blurring the lines between biological tissue and electronics. These filmlike patches, introduced in 2011, contain incredibly thin circuits, sensors and other electronic components and mount onto the skin.
electronic typewriter n. an electric typewriter, esp. one in which solid-state circuitry is used to provide facilities such as storing typed characters.
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society > communication > printing > typing > typewriter > [noun] > kinds of
typograph1820
printing key frame1851
dial writer1883
stenograph1891
stenotyper1898
stenotype1913
Brailler1951
electronic typewriter1957
manual1972
1957 Times 18 June 4/4 The machine, which costs over £1,000..is an electronic typewriter adapted for the reproduction of ‘personalized’ circular letters.
1972 Computer Design Apr. 112 (heading) Low cost electronic typewriter features simple, changeable printwheels.
1978 Business Week 13 Feb. 80/1 Its new line of electronic typewriters will bridge the gap between standard electric typewriters and low-priced word processors.
1999 Internat. Jrnl. Industr. Econ. 25 74/1 This design produced significantly higher strain in the forearm and finger muscles than the electronic typewriter and PC keyboards.
electronic voice phenomenon n. (also with capital initials) the supposed phenomenon of the manifestation of voices, alleged to be of paranormal origin, on audio recordings made in apparently silent or uninhabited places; an instance of this (chiefly in plural).
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1985 G. H. Hövelmann in P. Kurtz Skeptic's Handbk. Parapsychol. xxix. 647 The investigation of so-called electronic voice phenomena or Raudive voices.
1997 Evening Standard (Nexis) 30 July 31 [She] claimed she'd recorded ‘Electronic Voice Phenomena’..and insisted that the most logical explanation was not stray waves or tape readthrough, but voices from beyond the grave.
2005 Toronto Star 7 Jan. d6/1 Based on something called ‘electronic voice phenomenon’, or EVP, this fitfully spooky thriller posits the theory..that dead people talk to the living through technology.
electronic warfare n. Military the use of electromagnetic or directed energy to disrupt, take advantage of, or deny an enemy's use of the electromagnetic spectrum for military purposes, or to attack personnel or physical resources directly; abbreviated EW.
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society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > other types of war
just war1485
private war1548
preventive wara1626
angelomachy1635
Titanomachy1739
mountain warfarec1800
border-war1809
world war1848
theomachy1858
trench warfare1887
electronic warfare1946
asymmetric conflict1975
cyberwar1992
asymmetrical warfare1995
1946 Tel.-Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) 4 July (Evening ed.) 14/4 Some of the wartime secrets used in electronic warfare, such as radar, may provide the necessary link between the blind and the outside world of light.
1991 Air Force Mag. June 26 (caption) Carrying..electronic countermeasures pods and armed with radar-busting HARMs [sc. Homing Anti-Radiation Missiles], Wild Weasels waged electronic warfare, with stunning results.
2016 Radio Times 4 June (South/West ed.) 109/1 A look at electronic warfare aircraft..used to gather intelligence and disrupt enemy radar signals to protect fighters.
electronic waste n. discarded electronic equipment (such as mobile phones, computers, etc.), typically containing environmentally hazardous substances and requiring special treatment for safe disposal or recycling; cf. e-waste n. 2.Use of the term is sometimes restricted to smaller electronic devices, but also often includes appliances and other larger pieces of electrical equipment; cf. electrical waste n. at electrical adj. and n. Compounds.
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1971 Bucks County (Pa.) Courier Times 30 Apr. 35/1 Western Electric answered a call by the state environmental Resources Department for all companies which disposed of electronic wasts [sic] at site to join in paying cleanup costs.
2019 Guardian (Nexis) 7 Feb. The UK is the worst offender in Europe for illegally exporting toxic electronic waste to developing countries.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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