lumpedadj.
/lʌmpt/, U.S. /ləmpt/ 1. Made, shaped, or raised into a lump.
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c1425 St. Christina x, in Anglia VIII. 123/29 In þe maner of an vrchyn þe lumped body ȝode to þe owne shappe.
1882 J. Walker Descr. Jaunt to Auld Reekie 20 He limps awa and hauds his lumpit noddle.
1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 21 Like lumped grass Nid-nod to ground beneath the cuffing storm.
2. (Containing electrical impedances or circuit elements) localized at a particular point or points, rather than distributed uniformly throughout part of a circuit.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > [adjective] > relating to localized impedances
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1912 A. E. Kennelly Applic. Hyperbolic Functions to Electr. Engin. Probl. iii. 35 This semi-angle cannot be correct, because it is based on a lumped leakance instead of a distributed leakance as assumed.
1948 E. G. Bowen Text-bk. Radar xiii. 439 The units are connected by a low impedance coaxial cable which..is equivalent to a lumped capacity at video frequencies.
1967 Electronics 6 Mar. 163/1 Factors that combine to make analysis of crosstalk difficult are:..The distributed, rather than lumped, nature of the inductances and capacitances of the circuits involved.
1973 B. Kinariwala et al. Linear Circuits & Computation i. 4 We will confine ourselves to the discussion of lumped circuits—that is, circuits composed entirely of lumped elements.
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