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definition
An electronic measuring instrument that creates a visible two-dimensional graph, on a screen, of one or more continuously varying voltages or currents.
Examples of oscilloscope in a Sentence
They send impulses of the heart's activity through a monitor (oscilloscope) to a recorder that traces them on a moving strip of paper.
The concept has been further developed to create variable voltage levels that can be measured using an oscilloscope.
William Higinbotham developed the game on the oscilloscope, which measures voltage.
The first is what can be called the " power quality digital storage oscilloscope " .
A standard desk-top oscilloscope is not suitable for use on the mains.
The force profile of a rower using the ergometer was viewed by use of an oscilloscope attached to the signal from the amplifier.
This is recorded by a high sample rate oscilloscope and a fast Fourier transform (FFT) analysis is performed on the collected signal.
A small oscilloscope was built into the transmitter to aid with alignment and set-up the operation of the PA stages.
In 1958, William Higinbotham created a simple tennis game on his oscilloscope at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
The game was programmed on an oscilloscope that had a screen only five inches in diameter.