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galvanometer
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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2009
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gal·va·nom·e·ter
/ ˌgalvəˈnämitər/
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n.
an instrument for detecting and measuring small electric currents.
DERIVATIVES:
gal·va·no·met·ric
/ -nəˈmetrik/ adj.
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Massachusetts Inventor Develops Galvanometer Motor Composite Rotor
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 5/29/2008; 405 words
; ...David C. Brown of Northborough, Mass., has developed a galvanometer motor composite rotor. According to a description of the...The invention relates to limited rotation motors such as galvanometers, and particularly relates to limited rotation torque motors...
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SSaM extends the field of view for scanning head laser systems; New Nmark SSaM provides coordinated control of galvanometer scan head and multi-axis positioning stages for fully synchronised large area laser marking and machining.
M2 Presswire; 10/17/2008; 700+ words
; ...systems; New Nmark SSaM provides coordinated control of galvanometer scan head and multi-axis positioning stages for fully synchronised...Scanner and Motion) extends the application potential for galvanometer based laser scanners with direct control of XY2-100 protocol...
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Massachusetts Inventors Develop Galvanometer Optical Scanning System
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/11/2007; 507 words
; ...device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "improved servo system for galvanometers, scanners and similar devices which uses digital processing to increase the dynamic range and provide greater effective...
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Galvo based laser scanning systems.(Seeing The Light)(Column)
Magazine article from: CircuiTree; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...been attached. Many galvanometers are equipped with...axes. Typically, galvanometers are found in two...optics" counterparts, galvanometer-based systems usually...speeds. Industrial galvanometer based scanning sub...their processes with galvanometers. Of course both methods...
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The centennial of the Einthoven electrocardiogram
Magazine article from: Journal of Electrocardiology; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...of the electrocardiogram by string galvanometer evolved a century ago from wide-ranging...Einthoven, electrocardiogram, string galvanometer, capillary electrometer. This year...centennial of the introduction of the string galvanometer into clinical electrocardiography by...
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FPGAs make retinal disease treatment faster and safer: medical and electronics technologies join forces to treat retinal disease with 100% reliability.(MEDICAL ELECTRONICS TEST)
Magazine article from: EE-Evaluation Engineering; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...axis coordinate to an X-Y galvanometer that changes the mirror...laser-beam delivery. Galvanometers are used in many optical...receiving the coordinates, the galvanometer sends back two voltages...position accuracy of the galvanometer can be characterized and...
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NEW NIKON FULLY-AUTOMATED A1 CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPE SERIES.
Newspaper article from: Imaging Update; 3/1/2008; 700+ words
; ...offers standard paired galvanometers with high resolution...scanner system of paired galvanometers coupled to a high speed resonant galvanometer. This supports advanced...control with resonant and galvanometer scanners that can be...
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Nikon Instruments Launches Fully-Automated A1 Confocal Laser Microscope Series.
PR Newswire; 1/29/2008; 700+ words
; ...offers standard paired galvanometers with high resolution...scanner system of paired galvanometers coupled to a high speed resonant galvanometer. This supports advanced...control with resonant and galvanometer scanners that can be...
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Multi-element atomic absorption with on-line cation exchange.
Magazine article from: Canadian Chemical News; 6/1/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...the atomizer in rapid sequence by a galvanometer-driven mirror (see Figure 1). A second galvanometer drive controls the grating inside the...monochromator and is synchronized with the galvanometer mirror. Galvanometer drive mechanisms...
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Product Briefs.
Newspaper article from: Medical Device Daily; 2/5/2008; 700+ words
; ...the A1R. The A1 offers standard paired galvanometers with high resolution scanning at up to...incorporates a hybrid scanner system of paired galvanometers coupled to a high speed resonant galvanometer. Nikon said it specializes in developing...
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galvanometer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
galvanometer , instrument...conductor. All galvanometers are based upon...calibrated scale, the galvanometer can be used to...Such calibrated galvanometers are used in many...a calibrated galvanometer through which...
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Einthoven, Willem
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...necessity. Starting from the mirror galvanometer of Deprez-d ’ Arsonval...brilliant conception of the string galvanometer. In 1896, while working on the construction...electrocardiogram by means of a second string galvanometer. The construction of a string recorder...
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Instruments
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...x2014;auriscopy , n. ballistic galvanometer fluxmeter. barometer an instrument for...for measuring magnetic flux; a ballistic galvanometer. galactometer lactometer. galvanometer an instrument for measuring the strength...
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Cumming, James
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...experiments and independently invented the galvanometer, describing it in greater detail than...BIBLIOGRAPHY I Original Works. The galvanometer is described in “ on the...knowledge of their existence. The galvanometer is discussed in Robert A. Chipman...
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Measurement
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...measurement of the strength of electric currents, by means of a galvanometer. —galvanometric, galvanometrical , adj. gasometry...rheometry the measurement of electric current, usually with a galvanometer. —rheometric , adj. stadia a means of surveying...
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