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    OSCILLOSCOPE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantitiesplay

    Synonyms:

    cathode-ray oscilloscope; CRO; oscilloscope; scope

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting man-made objects

    Hypernyms ("oscilloscope" is a kind of...):

    electronic equipment (equipment that involves the controlled conduction of electrons (especially in a gas or vacuum or semiconductor))

    Meronyms (parts of "oscilloscope"):

    cathode-ray tube; CRT (a vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen)

    Holonyms ("oscilloscope" is a part of...):

    cardiac monitor; heart monitor (a piece of electronic equipment for continual observation of the function of the heart)

    monitor; monitoring device (display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor)

    microwave radar; radar; radio detection and ranging; radiolocation (measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects)

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