digitron
English
editEtymology
editBlend of digital + electronic
Noun
editdigitron (plural digitrons)
- Synonym of Nixie tube
- 1961, British Communications and Electronics - Volume 8, Part 3, page 683:
- Such displays may be built using cathode ray tubes with electronically generated characters or by using arrays of digitrons and alphabet tubes, or by using electro-magnetic indicators.
- 1964, Izrailʹ Lʹvovich Kaganov, Electronics in industry, page 50:
- In digit indicator lamps (digitrons), (one of which, type HH-1, is shown in the photograph in Fig. 1.15) the cathodes are made of nichrome wires shaped as the first ten digits and arranged one after the other along the lamp axis about one mm apart.
- 1970, COSPAR Transactions - Issue 7, page 173:
- The time is displayed to 0.0001 second in digital form by means of digitrons (nixie tubes).
- (by extension) Any electronic device for displaying digits.
- 2011, Qihai Zhou, Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, →ISBN:
- The LEDs display and keystroke identifying are accomplished by using HD7279A, which is an intelligent control chip for 8-bit LED digitrons and 64-key keyboard with serial interface.
Anagrams
editRomanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French digitron.
Noun
editdigitron n (plural digitroane)
Declension
editDeclension of digitron
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) digitron | digitronul | (niște) digitroane | digitroanele |
genitive/dative | (unui) digitron | digitronului | (unor) digitroane | digitroanelor |
vocative | digitronule | digitroanelor |
References
editSerbo-Croatian
editEtymology
editDerived from the name of a Croatian company that specialized in manufacturing of pocket calculators.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdìgitrōn m (Cyrillic spelling дѝгитро̄н)
- calculator
- Synonym: kalkùlātor
Declension
editDeclension of digitron
singular | plural | |
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nominative | digitron | digitroni |
genitive | digitrona | digitrona |
dative | digitronu | digitronima |
accusative | digitron | digitrone |
vocative | digitrone | digitroni |
locative | digitronu | digitronima |
instrumental | digitronom | digitronima |
References
edit- “digitron” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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