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Tendai (iou) and oscilloscope (sh)


Tendai (iou)



Tendai noun. E18.
[Japanese from Chinese Tiantai, the mountain in Zhejiang (Chekiang) province, SE China where the doctrines of the sect were formulated.]
A Buddhist sect introduced into Japan from China by the monk Saicho (767-822), founded by Zhi Yi (515-97) and characterized by elaborate ritual, moral idealism, and philosophical eclecticism.

oscilloscope (sh)




or cathode-ray oscilloscope

Electronic display device used to produce patterns on a screen that are the graphical representations of electrical signals.

Time is normally on the horizontal axis, and a function of the voltage generated by the input signal to the oscilloscope on the vertical axis; four or more plots can be simultaneously shown. Because almost any physical phenomenon can be converted into a corresponding electric voltage, oscilloscopes find commercial, engineering, and scientific applications in acoustic research, Television-production engineering, and electronics design.