transducer
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of transducer
1920–25; < Latin trānsdūc ( ere ) to transfer ( see traduce) + -er 1
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The bass society limits sonar users to one transducer, while viewing screens can’t have a diameter of more than 55 inches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
Therefore, a novel transducer that can achieve simple and seamless integration is crucial for practical application.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2024
As part of her research, she uses a pacifier attached to a pressure transducer system to measure an infant’s suck response pattern and how it changes in response to different stimuli.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2023
An ultrasound probe sends these waves through a layer of gooey gel into the human body, where they bounce off organs and other internal structures and then return to the transducer array.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 29, 2022
The finite-state transducer is a device for linking pairs of these sequences under the control of a grammar of local correspondences, and thus provides a means of rewriting one sequence as another.
From Multilingualism on the Web by Lebert, Marie
One layer consists of an array of small piezoelectric transducers, which produce ultrasound waves when electrically stimulated and receive ultrasound waves reflected from the brain.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024
Conventional ultrasound transducers are typically made using multiple opaque layers to maximize acoustic performance, and they cannot be seamlessly integrated into light pathways.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2024
Underwater transducers detect the patterns of echoes bouncing back, which are converted into charts, called echograms, that give a vertical view of where things are in the water column.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 13, 2024
They also aimed to retain the same sensitivity of commercial hand-held probes, which typically incorporate about 128 piezoelectric transducers, each of which transforms an incoming electric field into outgoing sound waves.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2024
By machine-spacing the transmitting and the receiving transducers as closely together as possible, with minimum clearance, the plastic coating could do an even better job of absorbing sonar pings than the hand-rigged model.
From Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Brey, Charles
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