| 释义 |
summator|sʌˈmeɪtə(r)|
[f. summate v. + -or.]
1. Electr. Engin. That which sums; spec. a device which sums the analogue or digital information it receives. Cf. integrator.
1930Engineering 11 Apr. 482/1 The summator proper consists of two parts, a series of small dials giving the total kilowatt hours recorded by all the individual meters and larger dials, on which the maximum demand in kilowatts is aggregated. 1953Proc. Inst. Electr. Engineers C. i. 44/1 The summator operates on the same principle of current balance as the telemeter and its error term is the same. 1974Jrnl. Appl. Physiol. XXXVII. 748/1 A problem..is the inherently slow response time of the continuous discharge integrators (usually called analog summators, or merely integrators) used to supply this running average.
2. Psychol. In full, verbal summator: (see quots.).
1936B. F. Skinner in Jrnl. Psychol. II. 71 The verbal summator is a device for repeating arbitrary samples of speech obtained by permuting and combining certain elemental speech-sounds. Ibid., Apart from its use as a test, the summator is valuable in the study of other aspects of verbal behavior. Ibid. 73 The verbal summator..evokes latent verbal responses through summation with imitative responses to skeletal samples of speech. 1957C. E. Osgood et al. in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 293/1 Skinner (1936) has devised a ‘verbal summator’ technique for studying language behavior... Samples of meaningless speech sounds are repeated until the subject perceives some meaningful form—a kind of verbal inkblot. 1970Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. Oct. 143 Skinner hoped to measure the strength and relative importance of verbal responses and intended that the verbal summator, or Tautophone, as it was subsequently named, should become the instrument for doing so. |