Glossary of electrical and electronics engineering: Difference between revisions

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{{term|[[serial communication]]}}{{defn|Transmission of data as a single series of bits over a communication path.}}

{{term|[[series and parallel circuits]]}}{{defn|Electrical circuits where current passes through multiple elements either one after the other, or side by side, like the rungs of a ladder, or both.}}

{{term|[[shaded-pole motor]]}}{{defn|An {{gli|alternating current}} single -phase motor that produces a rotating magnetic field by a turn of wire around part of a field pole.}}

{{term|[[shaft voltage]]}}

{{defn|An objectionable stray voltage that appears on the rotating part of an electrical machine; very deleterious to supporting bearings.}}

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{{term|[[solid state (electronics)|solid state]]}}{{defn|Electronics that relies on current flow through crystalline lattices.}}

{{term|[[solid state physics]]}}{{defn|That branch of physics that studies arrangements of atoms in fixed arrays.}}

{{term|[[sound recording]]}}{{defn|The technology of recording sound for later reporductionreproduction.}}

{{term|[[space vector modulation]]}}{{defn|A control strategy for variable frequency motor drives.}}

{{term|[[spark spread]]}}{{defn|The difference between the revenue from selling a unit of electricity and the cost of the fuel used to make it.}}

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{{term|[[sulfur hexafluoride circuit breaker]]}}{{defn|A kind of automatic circuit protection switch that breaks current in an atmosphere of pressurized sulfur hexafluoride gas to extinguish the arc.}}

{{term|[[super grid]]}}{{defn|A wide area power transmission network that allows interchange over continental distances.}}

{{term|[[supercomputer]]}}{{defn|A computer with a substantially higher level of performance than a general -purpose machine; especially adapted for high intensity calculation on large data sets.}}

{{term|[[superconducting electric machine]]}}{{defn|An experimental type of generator or motor that has part of its electric circuits in the superconducting state.}}

{{term|[[superconductivity]]}}{{defn|The loss of all electrical resistance at inconveniently low temperatures.}}

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{{term|[[synchroscope]]}}{{defn|An instrument used to bring an {{gli|alternating current}} generator into synchronization with a grid, that uses a moving pointer or set of lamps.}}

{{term|[[system identification]]}}{{defn|The technique of development of a mathematical model of a controlled system; model identification.}}

{{term|[[system on a chip]]}}{{defn|An integrated circuit that combines multiple significant subsytemssubsystems of a product on one die, for example, analog signal processing and digital controls.}}

{{term|[[system on module]]}}{{defn|A packaging of significant functions of a complete product in a form that can be used in more than one product.}}

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