Sentence examples for a device that conducts from inspiring English sources

The detection of a radio signal, which is a very high-frequency alternating current (AC), requires that the signal be rectified; i.e., the alternating current must be converted into a direct current (DC) by a device that conducts only when the signal has one polarity but not when it has the other precisely what Fleming's valve (patented in 1904) did.

The most fundamental electronic device is the electrical diode; its thermal equivalent is the thermal diode, a device that conducts heat in only one direction.

Otellini compared the Obama administration to a "diode" — an electronic device that conducts electric current in only one direction.

Every doctor may sport a handheld device that conducts the most sophisticated blood tests in minutes, instead of having to ship samples off to large testing labs and wait days for the results.

There were ten different companies, ranging from a device that made it possible to conduct high-risk pregnancy at home to an online service that keeps all your family's medical records in one place.

In order to assess the effects of reuse prevention devices, and given we did not identify any study assessing a device that is purely a reuse prevention device, we conducted a subgroup analyses of studies of devices that qualified as both reuse prevention devices and sharps injury prevention devices [ 15, 21, 22].

All of this is of some importance in desktop equipment, where space is scarce but heat sinks (devices that conduct heat away from an electronic device) and fans can mitigate these problems, and power consumption isn't that crucial when the device is plugged into the wall.

The device that will conduct the experiment was supplied by UCF's Center for Microgravity Research.

Hot air drying was conducted with a wood device that has a heating system composed of a butane gas jet and centrifuge fan to circulate hot air 42°C (24 45°C) through the trays.

Now, researchers have demonstrated a tiny device that can emit single electrons through a conducting medium called a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG), every nanosecond or so.

The technology is a handheld device that measures resting heart rate and conducts three cardiac autonomic reflex tests to evaluate heart rate variability.