mania
mania (may-niă) n. a state of mind characterized by excessive cheerfulness and increased activity. The mood is euphoric and changes rapidly to irritability. Thought and speech are rapid to the point of incoherence and the connections between ideas may be impossible to follow. Treatment is usually with drugs such as lithium or phenothiazines. See also
bipolar affective disorder.
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manic (
man-ik) adj.
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Wisconsin Inventors Develop Electrohydraulic Valve Servomechanism
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 6/12/2008; 527 words
; ...Wis., have developed an electrical servomechanism. An abstract of the invention, released...amp; Trademark Office, said: "A servomechanism includes a controller which dynamically...voltage to apply to open the valve. The servomechanism receives a current setpoint designating...
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Singapore Inventors Develop Servomechanism
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/8/2007; 546 words
; ...Luo, Tong Heng Lee and Shuzhi Ge, all from Singapore, have developed a servomechanism. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In servomechanisms, like for example used in disk drives, disturbances, for example, friction...
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USCG Seeks C130H Hydraulic Servomechanism Overhauls in North Carolina
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/12/2008; 375 words
; ...The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Coast Guard said it was looking to buy five C130H hydraulic servomechanism overhauls to be delivered to Elizabeth City, N.C. The NAICS code for this requirement is 336413 with the size standard...
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Oregon, New York, California Inventors Develop Command Trajectory Modification Technique
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/7/2008; 545 words
; ...Newark, Calif., have developed servomechanism control systems. According to the...trajectory, the architecture of a servomechanism control system, or both, to reduce...procedure generates for use by the servomechanism control system a corrective input...
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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Oregon (April 7)
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 4/7/2008; 700+ words
; ...Newark, Calif., have developed servomechanism control systems.According to the...trajectory, the architecture of a servomechanism control system, or both, to reduce...procedure generates for use by the servomechanism control system a corrective input...
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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New York (April 7)
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 4/7/2008; 700+ words
; ...Newark, Calif., have developed servomechanism control systems.According to the...trajectory, the architecture of a servomechanism control system, or both, to reduce...procedure generates for use by the servomechanism control system a corrective input...
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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Wisconsin (June 12)
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 6/12/2008; 700+ words
; ...Wis., have developed an electrical servomechanism.An abstract of the invention, released...amp; Trademark Office, said: "A servomechanism includes a controller which dynamically...voltage to apply to open the valve. The servomechanism receives a current setpoint designating...
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Researchers from Yuan-Ze University publish new studies and findings in the area of fuzzy systems.(Report)
Newspaper article from: Robotics & Machine Learning; 12/8/2008; 700+ words
; ...of a two-axis inverted-pendulum servomechanism is a nonlinear underactuated system...nonlinear two-axis inverted-pendulum servomechanism. The aim of the inner control loop...Nonlinear Two-Axis Inverted-Pendulum Servomechanism. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems...
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Study results from Hanyang University provide new insights into magnetics.(Report)
Newspaper article from: Electronics Newsweekly; 2/25/2009; 676 words
; ...sliding mode proximate time-optimal servomechanism (MSMPTOS) applied to scanning probe...sliding mode proximate time-optimal servomechanism (SMPTOS). For long track seek...Sliding Mode Proximate Time-Optimal Servomechanism for Scanning-Probe-Microscope...
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Federal Contracts Awarded by Federal Agencies in North Carolina (July 12)
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 7/12/2008; 700+ words
; ...City, NC 27909-5001.***USCG Seeks C130H Hydraulic Servomechanism Overhauls in North CarolinaELIZABETH CITY, N.C., July...Coast Guard said it was looking to buy five C130H hydraulic servomechanism overhauls to be delivered to Elizabeth City, N.C. The...
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servomechanism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
servomechanism automatic device for the control...control system of a DC motor is a servomechanism that monitors any variations in the...the speed to its correct value. Servomechanisms are also used for the control systems...
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servo
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
ser·vo / ˈsərvō / • n. ( pl. -vos ) short for servomechanism or servomotor . ∎ [as adj. ] relating to or involving a servomechanism: hydraulic and electrical servo systems.
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Automation
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...robotism the use of automated machinery or manlike mechanical devices to perform tasks. —robotistic, adj. servomechanism a closed-circuit feedback system used in the automatic control of machines, involving an error-sensor using a small...
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Hefner-Alteneck, Friedrich Franz von
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...more than forty years (1884). Other inventions included electric telemetering of remote water-level data; an electric servomechanism for ships ’ telegraphs; an automatic fire-alarm signaling system; and a method for railway block signaling...
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autopilot
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...plan. Systems range from simple wing-levellers in light aircraft to computer-operated units consisting of: a gyroscope ; an electric servomechanism unit and an accelerometer, which measures the acceleration of the aircraft.
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