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circuit breaker

(Encyclopedia)circuit breaker, electric device that, like a fuse, interrupts an electric current in a circuit when the current becomes too high. The advantage of a circuit breaker is that it can be reset after it h...

analog circuit

(Encyclopedia)analog circuit, electronic circuit that operates with currents and voltages that vary continuously with time and have no abrupt transitions between levels. Generally speaking, analog circuits are cont...

digital circuit

(Encyclopedia)digital circuit, electronic circuit that can take on only a finite number of states. That is contrasted with analog circuits, whose voltages or other quantities vary in a continuous manner. Binary (tw...

Integrated Pest Management

(Encyclopedia)Integrated Pest Management (IPM), planned program that coordinates economically and environmentally acceptable methods of pest control with the judicious and minimal use of toxic pesticides. IPM progr...

Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

(Encyclopedia)Integrated Ocean Drilling Program: see under Deep Sea Drilling Project. ...

LSI

(Encyclopedia)LSI: see integrated circuit.

MSI

(Encyclopedia)MSI: see integrated circuit.

VLSI

(Encyclopedia)VLSI: see integrated circuit.

resistor

(Encyclopedia)resistor, two-terminal electric circuit component that offers opposition to an electric current. Resistors are normally designed and operated so that, with varying levels of current, variations of the...

Kilby, Jack St. Clair

(Encyclopedia)Kilby, Jack St. Clair, 1923–2005, American electrical engineer, b. Jefferson City, Mo., B.S. Univ. of Illinois, 1947, M.S. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1950. In 1958, Kilby began working for Texas Instrument...