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Section II.
DEFINITION OF UNUSUAL TERMS
Address
Alinement
Ambient
Analog
Analog to digital converter
Anode
Aperture
Asynchronous
Attenuate
Back porch
Binary coded decimal (BCD)
Binary number system
Bit
Black-body
Blanking pulse
Boresight
A binary number designating a particular location.
The process of adjusting components of a system for
proper interrelationship.
Surrounding (such as light or temperature).
Continuously variable, rather than switching suddenly
between certain levels.
A device which produces a digital output from an input
in the form of continuously variable voltages.
A positive electrode such as the plate of a vacuum
tube.
An opening such as the opening in a photographic lens
that admits the light.
Circuitry and operations without common clock signals.
Reduce in amplitude.
In a composite picture signal, that portion which lies
between the trailing edge of a horizontal sync pulse and
the corresponding blanking pulse.
A binary numbering system for representing each digit of
a decimal number in groups of four bits.
A method of writing numbers by using two numeral digits,
O and 1.
A binary digit, written as 1 for “yes” and O for "no".
An emitter for which total radiated energy and the
spectral distribution of the energy are accurately known
functions of temperature.
A square wave used to switch off electronically a part
of a television for a predetermined length of time.
The alinement of the optical system by the use of a
fixed target.
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