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Definition: Emitter |
EmitterNoun1. The electrode in a transistor where electrons originate. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Electrical Engineering | The region of a bipolar transistor from which charge carriers are emitted into the base in order to be subsequently collected, thus giving rise to transistor action. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A region between the emitter junction and the emitter electrode. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Environment | Any factory or other plant, furnace, chemical process, etc. that discharges pollutants into the air ; any process or activity which releases a greenhouse gas, an aerosol or a precursor of a greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. Source: European Union. (references) |
Information | An apparatus or organ which produces for transmission signals representig messages from a message source. Source: European Union. (references) |
Physics | A radionuclide that emits alpha, beta, or gamma radiation(or conversion electrons, K, X-rays, or neutrons). Source: European Union. (references) |
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![]() | Figure 69. Langevin quartz ultrasonic projector. This device was built in 1925 by the Society for Condensation and Mechanical Applications based on work by Paul Langevin. It was also distributed by the Marconi Company. It consisted of a piezo-electric emitter. No informatin exists concerning tests and use of this instrument.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Drip irrigation emitter. Rio Arriba County, New Mexico.Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
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| "Emitter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.00% of the time. "Emitter" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 12% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "emitter": bootstrapped emitter follower ♦ emitter Coupled Logic ♦ emitter current ♦ emitter junctions ♦ meandered emitter junction ♦ ohmic emitter resistance. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "emitter": emitter-base, emitter-coupled, emitter-follower, emitter-multiplied. | |
Ending with "emitter": base-emitter, beta-emitter, collector-emitter, common-emitter. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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ir emitter | 10 |
emitter | 8 |
emitter nir | 8 |
infrared emitter | 5 |
emitter follower | 5 |
2n3904 amplifier common emitter | 3 |
common emitter | 3 |
base collector emitter | 2 |
emitter infrared long range | 2 |
emitter opticom | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "emitter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | æ"¾å°„器. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | emitter, emissionskilde (emission source, emitting source, emittor, source, source of emission), sender (communicator, radio transmitter, sender, transmitter, Tx), kilde (emission source, emitting source, emittor, fountain, originating point, source, source constituant, source of emission, source species, source substance, spring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | emitter, zender (communicator, receiving station, sender, transmitter, transmitting), straler (projection, radiator), lozingsbron (emission source, emitting source, emittor, source, source of emission), bron (emission source, emitting source, emittor, fountain, mineral water spring, source, source of emission, spring, well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | emitteri (source), säteilijä, pulssilähde (pulsed source), päästölähde (emission source, emitting source, emittor, source, source of emission), lähetin (radio transmitter, sender, transmitter, Tx), lähde (emission source, emitting source, emittor, fountain, mineral water spring, source, source of emission, spring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | source d'émission (emission source, emitting source, emittor, source of emission), source émettrice (emission source, emitting source, emittor, source of emission), source (emission source, emitting source, emittor, source of emission), émetteur (emission source, emitting source, emittor, source of emission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sender (broadcast station, channel, receiving station, sender, sending entity, station, transmitter, transmitters, transmitting, Tx, xmitter, xmtr), Emitter (emissive material). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πηγή εκπομπής (emission source, emitting source, emittor, source, source of emission), πομπός (emitting device, sender, transmitter), Εκπομπός, εκπόμποσ, εκπομπός (sender, transmitter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sugárzó anyag (radiator), sugárzó (aerial, aglow, beaming, emissive, irradiant, irradiated, radiant, radiative, sunny, transmitting), kisugárzó (radiative), kibocsátó (drawer, emissive, floater, starter), impulzusadó (pulse transmitter), emitter, adókészülék. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trasmettitore (radio transmitter, sender, sending entity, transmitter, transmitter substance), emettitore (sender, source, transmitter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emitteray emissor (card issuer, issuer, sender, sending entity, source, transmitter), fonte emissora (emission source, emitting source, emittor, source, source of emission), fonte de emissão (emission source, emitting source, emittor, source, source of emission), fonte (authorship, draw well, emission source, emitting source, emittor, font, fount, fountain, fresh, hand, head, headstone, mint, mother, origination, radix, root, source, source of emission, spring, supply, temple, well, wellspring). (various references) Ñмитент. (various references) emisor (card issuer, issuer, issuing, issuing company, sender, transmitter). (various references) emitter (source), utsläppskälla (emission source, emitting source, emittor, source, source of emission), strÃ¥lare, sändare (communicator, sender, sending entity, transmitter, transmittor, Tx). (various references) emitör, fışkırtan ÅŸey, çıkarıcı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "emitter": emitters. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "emitter": remitter. (additional references) | |
Words containing "emitter": remitters. (additional references) | |
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"Emitter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amiter, eliter, emita, emite, emitte, emittere, Emmetten, emoter, exiter, hemeistert, mitter. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: termite. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-m-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: metier, reemit, retime. | |
-2 letters: merit, meter, metre, miter, mitre, remet, remit, retem, retie, timer, titer, titre, trite. | |
-3 letters: emir, emit, item, meet, mere, mete, mire, mite, mitt, rete, rime, rite, teem, term, tier, time, tire, tree, tret, trim. | |
-4 letters: eme, ere, ire, met, mir, ree, rei, rem, ret, rim, tee, tet, tie, tit. | |
-5 letters: em, er, et, it, me, mi, re, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-m-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: embitter, emitters, remitted, remitter, temerity, termites, termtime, thermite, trimeter. | |
+2 letters: aftertime, altimeter, detriment, embitters, embrittle, extremist, extremity, hermetist, impetrate, interment, interterm, meteorite, permitted, permittee, permitter, pretermit, reemitted, remitment, remittent, remitters, taximeter, terminate, termtimes, thermites, tiltmeter, tremolite, trimester, trimeters. | |
+3 letters: aftertimes, altimeters, centimeter, detriments, embittered, embrittled, embrittles, extremists, filmsetter, hermetists, imbittered, impetrated, impetrates, interments, internment, littermate, marionette, martensite, meteorites, meteoritic, meterstick, metritises, mistreated, permittees, permitters, pretermits, readmitted, reemitting, reestimate, remitments, remittable, remittance, remotivate, retirement, sestertium, streamiest, taximeters, telemetric, temerities, terminated, terminates, tetrameric, tiltmeters, trembliest, tremolites, trimesters, wintertime. | |
+4 letters: actinometer, altimetries, attempering, centimeters, determinant, determinate, determinist, detrainment, detrimental, dilatometer, ectothermic, embittering, entrainment, exterminate, extremities, filmsetters, harvesttime, hemstitcher, impertinent, intemperate, intermitted, intermitter, internments, intersystem, littermates, marionettes, marquisette, martensites, maternities, metacentric, meteoritics, metersticks, multicenter, multitiered, optometries, preadmitted, premeditate, recommitted, recruitment, reestimated, reestimates, remittances, remotivated, remotivates, restimulate, resubmitted, retirements, steamfitter, telemetries, tensiometer, tensiometry, terminative, termitaries, theorematic, tonometries, trumpetlike, wintertimes. | |
+5 letters: actinometers, amphitheater, astrometries, bathymetries, biotelemetry, densitometer, densitometry, dermatitides, dermatitises, determinants, determinator, determinists, detrainments, detrimentals, dilatometers, disinterment, distemperate, divertimenti, divertimento, dumortierite, econometrist, embitterment, endometritis, entrainments, exterminated, exterminates, exterminator, fermentation, fermentative, harvesttimes, hemstitchers, hereditament, instrumented, intermediate, intermittent, intermitters, intermixture, intermontane, intersegment, keratotomies, marquisettes, meristematic, metacentrics, meteoritical, micropipette, misinterpret, mistreatment, multitowered, nitromethane, overestimate, photometries, premeditated, premeditates, premeditator, presentiment, pretermitted, reattempting, recommitment, recruitments, reenlistment, reestimating, reindictment, reinvestment, ressentiment, restimulated, restimulates, semiliterate, sempiternity, sensitometer, sensitometry, somersetting, steamfitters, systematizer, telemetering, tensiometers, tensiometric, theocentrism, thermometric, turbidimeter, unembittered, vitrectomies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6D 69 74 74 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -- .. - - . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101101 01101001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E m i t t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006D 0069 0074 0074 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39797586867184 |
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