单词 | interpolator |
释义 | interpolatorn. 1. One who interpolates. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writer > [noun] > one who inserts between lines interliner1653 interpolator1659 1659 J. Pearson Expos. Creed (1839) 243 What the interpolator of Gregory Nyssen's Homily produceth, he confesseth taken from apocryphal writings. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 463 The Interpolator borrow'd it, and clapt it in here. 1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. ii. iii. 259 It was denominated by Nennius, or his interpolator, Provincia Lodonesie. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. App. 528 An interpolator would surely have taken care to insert the more famous stories. 2. A mechanical contrivance for securing correct retransmission from a submarine cable of any consecutive letter-elements having the same sign. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > [noun] > device for securing correct retransmission interpolator1902 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 226/2 The special form of curb sender mentioned, termed the ‘Interpolator’. 1958 Economist 1 Nov. 425 (advt.) The Interpolator is the essential part of the mechanism used to re-form signals automatically at the end of their journey through a long cable, before they are sent into another. 3. Engineering. A device or apparatus which, when fed with a set of datum points defining a curve, produces a continuous output for guiding a tool over the curve. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > [noun] > guides guide1680 guideline1785 guider1825 ways1835 saddle1866 interpolator1953 1953 IRE Trans. Industr. Electronics I. 29 The interpolator output provides a continuous angular rotation whose instantaneous angular position represents the radius vector of the machine tool's cutter locus. 1961 S. Fifer Analogue Computation IV. xxx. 1279 The function of the analogue interpolator is to compute a continuous curve from the discrete set of digital information and to position a mechanical lathe accordingly. 1973 tr. W. Simon's Numerical Control Machine Tools ii. 43 The cost of the control equipment located on the machine tool itself is considerably reduced, since the machine no longer has its own interpolator. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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