单词 | inverter |
释义 | invertern. 1. A person who or thing which inverts something (in various senses of the verb); esp. a perverter of the true, proper, or natural meaning, order, or purpose of something; a disrupter of established values or norms. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > leading astray > one who leads astray > [noun] perverser1482 perverter?a1500 seducer1542 inverter1584 debaucher1631 1584 B. Rich Don Simonides II. sig. E.iiiiv Thei [sc. the popes] are inuerters, not faithfull expositers of the Scripturs. 1612 W. Jewel tr. Golden Cabinet True Treasure 228 Temeritie is the accursed inuerter of equity and iustice in man, constraining him both to doe and say al things without reason. 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 44 It was a rare thing then to finde a Cain, a Iudas, an Inuerter, Detayner, Vsurper of Gods Right. 1717 Entertainer No. 3. (single sheet) This Maggot of corrupted Texts, this Inverter of Order and Government, that hugs himself with Thoughts of Impunity. 1789 J. Bonner Bee-master's Compan. v. 15 Those inverters of nature.., who lie in bed when the great candle of nature is shining.., and rise precisely when it is half burnt. 1829 Westm. Rev. Oct. 527 One of his disciples poured out the prophetic wash-pot... As is usual on such occasions, they..stand pointing to the unlucky inverter of the earthen-ware. 1922 W. O. Van Eyck Landmarks of Reformed Fathers 57 The Seceders..must stand trial as disturbers and inverters of the established conditions in the Colonial Churches. 1944 Agriculture Jan. 442 Ploughing can thus be much more liberally interpreted, and the plough regarded as an inverter of the soil, rather than merely forming a static furrow. 2007 B. Lewis My Words echo Thus iii. 15 The transvestite is primarily an inverter of norms, someone who reverses the clichés of fashion and identity. 2. a. A device or apparatus which converts direct current into alternating current. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > rectifier > [noun] > conversion to alternating current > apparatus for inverter1856 invertor1874 1856 R. D. Hoblyn & I. Hays Dict. Terms Med. & Collateral Sci. (rev. Amer. ed.) 385/2 Rheometer,..Mr Wheatstone applies the terms..rheostat to the regulator, rheotome to the interrupter, and rheotrope to the alternate inverter, of the electric current. 1947 P. Kemp Alternating Current Electr. Engin. (ed. 7) xxviii. 498 Inverters are used for regenerative braking on electric railways. 2002 Daily Tel. 17 Sept. 34/2 Inside there's a rechargeable battery and an inverter, which converts the low DC voltage from the battery into 230 volts AC. b. Telecommunications. A device that reverses the order of the component frequencies of a signal, typically in order to scramble it. Cf. invert v. 9. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > [noun] > signal > frequency or band of frequencies > inverter inverter1926 1926 U.S. Patent 1,573,983 4/1 The incoming speech waves from the respective microphones..or from the detectors..received by the speech inverter may comprise a component of 200 cycles. 1970 New Scientist 4 June 470/1 Another scrambler..was used by Churchill and Roosevelt..and although more secure than the inverter it was successfully descrambled. c. Electronics and Computing. A device which converts either of the two binary digits or signals into the other, so that every ‘1’ is replaced with a ‘0’ and vice versa. Cf. inversion n. 15. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > [noun] > electronic component, circuitry > semiconductor inverter1948 matrix1948 staticisor1949 staticizer1949 AND gate1959 cryosar1959 negater1962 negator1963 invertor1966 1948 A. S. Zukin Memory & Input Circuits Electronic Digital Computer (M.S. thesis, Univ. Calif.) ii. 41 An inverter, at the output, changes the pulse from positive to negative as required for most satisfactory double trigger operation. 1960 T. C. Bartee Digital Computer Fund. iv. 63 The inverter is one of the most commonly used transistor configurations in digital systems. 2018 L. E. Frenzel Electronics Explained (ed. 2) v. 117 A NAND gate can be made with an AND gate followed by an inverter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1584 |
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