单词 | transducer |
释义 | transducern. Any device by which variations in one physical quantity (e.g. pressure, brightness) are quantitatively converted into variations in another (e.g. voltage, position). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > [noun] > specific concepts or principles of > device converting variations transducer1924 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > electronic instruments > [noun] > sensor or transducer transducer1924 pickup1943 sensor1947 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electricity in living organisms > [noun] > nerve-ending producing signals transducer1957 1924 K. S. Johnson Transmission Circuits Teleph. Communication vii. 46 A structure which, when inserted in a circuit, enables this maximum possible power to be absorbed in the receiving circuit is called an ideal transducer. 1948 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 27 450 An actual quantizer (staircase transducer) has a finite overload value which must not be exceeded and hence can have only a finite number of steps. 1957 New Scientist 12 Dec. 30/2 The excitation of sensory [nerve] endings, physiological ‘transducers’ of mechanical changes into electrical signals. 1965 Wireless World July 31 (advt.) Racal Magnetic Transducer..converts rotational movement to a pulse output without physical connection to the shaft under test. 1973 M. Woodhouse Blue Bone ii. 11 We designed and sold a capacitative transducer head for somebody else's flowmeter. 1976 A. Hope Hi-fi Handbk. 88 Although we have so far considered only moving coil-moving cone loudspeakers, there are other types of ‘transducer’ on the market which convert electrical energy into sound in different ways. 1980 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts May 348/2 Huxley and Simmons use extremely fast-acting motors and transducers to record force changes in small fractions of a millisecond. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1924 |
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