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Emitter

Definition: Emitter

Emitter

Noun

1. The electrode in a transistor where electrons originate.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Emitter

DomainDefinitions

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Emitter

English words defined with "emitter": basep-n-p transistor. (references)
Specialty definitions using "emitter": allomone, alloy-diffused mesa transistor, alpha-parameterbase electrode, bipolar transistor, black body, blackbody, bootstrapped emitter follower, break-back voltagecollected current, collector current, common-base current gain, constant-gain region, current-mode logicdouble-diffused mesa transistorEbers-Moll leakage current, ECL, emitted current, Emitter Coupled Logic, emitter current, emitter junctions, emitter-coupled logic, emitter-multiplied avalanche breakdown voltage, emitting sole, Energy Contribution Potential, extinguished modeforward current gainignited modekairomoneleakage currentmeandered emitter junctionohmic base resistance, ohmic emitter resistance, overlapping junctionsPNP, pressure broadeningscattering-type pressure gage, superluminescent LEDTritium or Triton. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Emitter" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (emitter), Hungarian (emitter).

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Commercial Usage: Emitter

DomainTitle

Books

  • Polysilicon Emitter Bipolar Transistors (IEEE Press Selected Reprint Series) (reference)

  • TCAD based development of a polysilicon emitter transistor in a BiCMOS technology (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Emitter

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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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Emitter

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)88%2274,468
Lexical Verb (infinitive)12%3202,518
                    Total100.00%25N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Emitter

Expressions using "emitter": bootstrapped emitter follower emitter Coupled Logic emitter current emitter junctions meandered emitter junction ohmic emitter resistance. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "emitter": emitter-base, emitter-coupled, emitter-follower, emitter-multiplied.

Ending with "emitter": base-emitter, beta-emitter, collector-emitter, common-emitter.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Emitter

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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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Modern Translations: Emitter

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

Ñмитент. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

emisor (card issuer, issuer, issuing, issuing company, sender, transmitter). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

emitter (source), utsläppskälla (emission source, emitting source, emittor, source, source of emission), strålare, sändare (communicator, sender, sending entity, transmitter, transmittor, Tx). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

emitör, fışkırtan şey, çıkarıcı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Emitter

Derivations

Words beginning with "emitter": emitters. (additional references)

Words ending with "emitter": remitter. (additional references)

Words containing "emitter": remitters. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: Emitter

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Emitter


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6D 69 74 74 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101101 01101001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#109 &#105 &#116 &#116 &#101 &#114

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39797586867184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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