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Obsolete name for an ammeter; now an instrument for measuring fluid viscosity. rheostat Obsolete name for a two terminal variable resistor, usually with a rotating shaft to allow manual or motor driven adjustment. right-hand rule A mnemonic device for remembering the definitions of the directions of current and magnetic field in generators. ripple
A term referring to a fictional character (by whatever name) whose job it is to explain the plot or parts of a plot to other characters and the audience. mood lighting The deliberate use of certain lighting characteristics in a scene or even an entire film in order to provoke a particular state of mind or feeling in the viewer.
Analog (program), a computer program that analyzes log files from web servers; Analogical models, a method of representing a phenomenon of the world by another, more understandable or analyzable system; Functional analog (chemistry), a compound with similar properties; Structural analog, a compound with an altered chemical structure
Device that changes digital signals to analog, or reconstructs information (data) by performing the inverse (reverse) functions of an encode process. [1] Definition The aggregate of fine details available on-screen. The higher the definition of an image, the greater the number of details [that can be discerned by the human eye or displayed].
See also References External links A Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) A dedicated video bus standard introduced by INTEL enabling 3D graphics capabilities; commonly present on an AGP slot on the motherboard. (Presently a historical expansion card standard, designed for attaching a video card to a computer's motherboard (and considered high-speed at launch, one of the last off-chip parallel ...
Analog electronic photography was sometimes used in the late 20th century but soon died out. Photographic films utilize silver halide crystals suspended in emulsion , which when exposed to light record a latent image , which is then processed making it visible and insensitive to light.
There are notable non-electrical analog devices, such as some clocks (sundials, water clocks), the astrolabe, slide rules, the governor of a steam engine, the planimeter (a simple device that measures the surface area of a closed shape), Kelvin's mechanical tide predictor, acoustic rangefinders, servomechanisms (e.g. the thermostat), a simple mercury thermometer, a weighing scale, and the ...
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