Sentence examples for basic devices from inspiring English sources

Shipments of basic devices were up 49% in the second quarter while those for smart wearables fell 27%.

Many basic devices must be manufactured in such a way that their behaviour can be modified by means of some external control.

Although more than a third of its population of 1.2 billion now have a handset, they are often basic devices shared among families and friends.

By the early 1930s the American chemist Irving Langmuir had developed sufficient understanding of thermionic emission to build basic devices, but little progress was made until 1956.

"I think it's unlikely that they have an H-bomb at the moment, but I don't expect them to keep testing basic devices indefinitely, either," said Jeffrey Lewis of the California-based Montereyry Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

Though some basic devices such as the woodworking lathe had existed for centuries, their evolution into industrial machine tools capable of cutting and shaping hard metals to precise tolerances was brought about by a series of 19th-century innovators, first in Britain and later in the United States.

One basic device is the photoelectric cell, or photodiode.

But for even the most basic device to work, it needs power.

It was such a basic device that the scientists at Alamogordo felt no need to test it.

And while he subtly changed the rhythm's accents here and there, his basic device was driving continuity, a bullet train that wouldn't stop.

For each trick we look at, we'll see that there's the basic device, and variants - those established and those yet to be devised by pioneering setters.