encodern.

1944 Harper's Mag. Oct. 468/1 The Italian radio operator..did not have the mechanical encoder and had to encode the messages by hand.

1956 Electronic Engin. 28 37 At the rear of the machine is the perforator or ‘encoder’ which produces the punched tape.

1958 Electronic Engin. 30 685 The comparator described..compares two voltages at constant intervals of time, a process required for example in voltage encoders.

1959 Times Rev. Industry Feb. 86/1 Separation of the directional information from two normal left and right stereo signals in an encoder.

1964 J. Z. Young Model of Brain ix. 159 Cells with long spreading dendrites provide the encoders.

1966 Electronics 17 Oct. 38 Low-drift gyros are still desirable, but the encoder function and analog-to-digital requirements tied to gimbaling are bypassed.