单词 | motor-boating |
释义 | motor-boatingn. 1. The action of driving or travelling in a motor boat, esp. as a sport or leisure pursuit. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > boating > in specific type of boat tow-boating1887 motor-boating1905 powerboating1906 faltbooting1926 speed-boating1928 scootering1957 jet-skiing1976 1905 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 25 Feb. 15/1 Mrs. Herman Oelrichs is more interested in motor-boating at Florida than in the completion of her great white hotel on the summit of Nob Hill. 1918 Chambers's Jrnl. 20 July 541/1 The water is never dangerously rough, and provides the finest possible field for motor-boating. 1931 F. L. Allen Only Yesterday viii. 193 There was the visit of the Prince of Wales to Long Island, during which he danced much, played polo, went motor-boating. 1961 Guardian 8 Feb. 10/2 The sports of motor-boating and water-skiing. 1991 Motor Boat & Yachting Jan. 124/1 Things have come to a sorry pass when a sensible, pretty motor cruiser like this one..represents ‘alternative’ motor boating. 2. Electronics. Oscillation in an amplifier that is of such low frequency that individual cycles may be heard, giving a characteristic sound, and caused by feedback from the output to the input of earlier stages, often through a common voltage supply. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > [noun] > oscillation > resonance > low-frequency oscillation in amplifier motor-boating1930 1930 J. H. Reyner Testing Radio Sets vi. 84 Back-coupling with a mains unit usually takes the form known as motor-boating. The oscillation set up is of a low frequency and gives a continuous ‘pop, pop, pop’. 1943 F. E. Terman Radio Engineers' Handbk. v. 409 A power supply having low internal impedance at low frequencies is also helpful in eliminating motorboating. 1965 G. J. King Radio & Audio Servicing Handbk. iii. 78 Decoupling prevents signals which could occur in an element common to two or more stages from getting back into the input circuits and causing oscillation or motorboating. 1996 IEEE Engin. Med. & Biol. Mag. 15 116/1 With this configuration, many amplifier stages could be powered from the same supply (battery) without oscillation (motorboating). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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