The phrase "as a single device" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that functions or is considered as one unit or entity.
Example: "The system operates as a single device, ensuring seamless integration of all components."
Alternatives: "as one unit" or "as a unified entity".
In simple terms, metamaterials are specially engineered surfaces that have embedded microscopic structures and work as a single device.
Astronomers have created the world's largest virtual optical telescope, linking four telescopes in Chile so that they operate as a single device.
Any individual security excludes CCTV cameras which were available to only 0.15% of households as a single device in the period 2008/09 to 2011/12.
This type of analog image creation shows how low tech is creeping back into our lives as digital technology has erased not only the notion of the camera as a single device, but also as something that exists outside of networked connectivity.
Most departments can still only offer the use of the two modalities (PET/CT and MRI) each as a single device.
Multiple layers of quadrupole ion traps, with 121 trapping units in each layer, can operate as a single device for MS or MS/MS analysis, or as a series of mass-selective trapping devices with interlayer ion transfers facilitated by AC and DC voltages.
In the future, such integration of multiple transceivers (such as different generations of a successful technology such as 802.11) on a single device will be commonplace, and our work is thus well aligned with this trend.
An advertiser cannot reach as many people on a single device as that advertiser once could on television.
For example, the ZYNQ SoC devices from Xilinx feature a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 based Processing System (PS) as well as a programmable logic (PL) within a single device.
As a material highly sensitive to the environment, graphene could act as a sensor with a single device measuring strain, gas, magnetism or pressure.
At the United Nations earlier this month, Clinton said she chose a personal account over a government one out of convenience, describing it as a way to carry a single device, rather than one for work emails and another for personal messages.
