synchroscopen.
/ˈsɪŋkrəʊskəʊp/ 1. Electrical Engineering. An instrument for indicating any difference in frequency or phase between two alternating voltages.
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synchroscope1908
1908 V. Karapetoff Exper. Electr. Engin. xxi. 494 It only remains..to bring the machine into phase with the voltage at the bus-bars. This is done either by means of properly connected incandescent lamps..or special instruments, so-called synchroscopes.
1952 H. F. Banks Electricity I. xvii. 268/2 A..usually adopted method of paralleling two alternators is by means of the rotary synchroscope.
1981 T. Wildi Electr. Power Technol. xix. 364/2 Observe the phase angle between E0 and E by means of a synchroscope.
2. Electronics. (See quot. 1945.)
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synchroscope1945
vectorscope1957
1945 Electronic Industries Sept. 226 Synchroscope, an oscilloscope on which recurrent pulses or wave-forms may be observed, which incorporates a sweep-generator that produces one sweep for each pulse, regardless of frequency, thus allowing no more than one cycle to be viewed on the screen.
1947 R. Lee Electronic Transformers & Circuits ix. 257 This curve is observed by connecting the vertical plates of a synchroscope..across the transformer output winding.
1953 Electronic Engin. 25 229/1 Another specialised oscilloscope (synchroscope) is provided to display all details of the television waveform.
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