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potmeter

potmeter noun: potentiometer.

Noun

potmeter (plural potmeters)

  1. potentiometer
    • To stabilize servo, some form of stroke feedback is required : Either directly to the servovalve, or via a potmeter or a nonlinear stroke observer to the servoamplifier.1983, International Federation for Information Processing, Ship Operation Automation, IV: Proceedings of the 4th IFIP/IFAC Symposium, Genova, Italy, 20-22 September 1982, North-Holland Publishing...
    • In later power supplies the pulse length can be set on a continuous basis via a potmeter or an externally generated electrical signal.1988, C. J. Nonhof, Material Processing with Nd-lasers, Electrochemical, →ISBN, page 114

Forms of potmeter

pluralpotmeters

Questions about potmeter

What does potmeter mean?
Potmeter means potentiometer.
What part of speech is potmeter?
Potmeter is a noun.
What is the plural of potmeter?
The plural of potmeter is potmeters.

Words near potmeter in the dictionary

  1. potmaker
  2. potmakers
  3. potmaking
  4. potman
  5. potmen
  6. potmeter
  7. potmeters
  8. Potocki
  9. Potocki-Lupski syndrome
  10. Potocki-Shaffer syndrome
  11. Potockis

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