potentiometer
See also: Potentiometer
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- potentiometre (nonstandard, rare)
Noun edit
potentiometer (plural potentiometers)
- (electronics) A user-adjustable three-terminal variable resistor that can be used as a voltage divider.
- (physics) An instrument that measures a voltage by opposing it with a precise fraction of a known voltage, and without drawing current from the unknown source. [from late 19th c.]
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user-adjustable variable resistor
Mandarin: 电位器 (zh) (diàn wèi qì)
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instrument that measures a voltage
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