Sentence examples for oscilloscope from inspiring English sources
noun
An electronic measuring instrument that creates a visible two-dimensional graph, on a screen, of one or more continuously varying voltages or currents.
It was tiny: a sliver of germanium on a piece of glass, half the size of a paper-clip, with a few wires sticking out to connect it to an oscilloscope.
Then, using such devices as an oscilloscope or a logic analyser, he can work out how the pins on the central-processing-unit (CPU) chip behave which, in turn, reveals how the toy operates.
He also moved the firm's headquarters from Eindhoven, Philips's birthplace and the home of its main research laboratory, to Amsterdam, as a signal that the firm's sights were set on the market place and not the oscilloscope.
This effect, when coupled with the controlled deflection of a cathode ray by electric or magnetic fields, gives rise to the cathode-ray oscilloscope (cathode-ray tube [CRT]) for monitoring variations and values of an alternating voltage or current and to the picture tube of television and radar.
He improved cathode-ray tubes and developed the modern oscilloscope, widely used in the laboratory for the measurement and study of wave forms.
The first practical application of cathodoluminescence was in the viewing screen of an oscilloscope tube constructed in 1897; similar screens, employing improved crystal phosphors, are used in television, radar, oscilloscopes, and electron microscopes.
His production company, Oscilloscope Pictures, distributed several art-house classics, including "Exit Through the Gift Shop" about Banksy, a street artist.
Oscilloscope Laboratories, the company he started in 2002, produced and distributed films such as We Need To Talk About Kevin in the US.
Written and directed by Lance Daly; edited by J. Patrick Duffner; music by Go Blimps Go; production designer, Waldemar Kalinowski; costumes by Leonie Prendergast; produced by Macdara Kelleher and Mr. Daly; released by Oscilloscope Laboratories.
That was the question — a wry twist on the evangelical invocation of Jesus — that Dan Berger and David Laub, the co-presidents of Oscilloscope Laboratories, an independent film company, were considering as they prepared for a visit by a reporter.
On Tuesday, Oscilloscope Laboratories will release "Who Took the Bomp?", a Le Tigre concert film, on DVD; it chronicles a 2004 tour in which the bandmates --Ms. Handa, JDhanna Fateman and JD Samson -- grapple with marketing feminism and sexuality, a faltering music industry and the rigors of being on the road.
