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Components and Circuits For discussions about component types, alternatives and availability, circuit configurations and modifications etc. Discussions here should be of a general nature and not about specific sets. |
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17th Oct 2018, 10:23 am | #21 |
Octode
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Re: Rejector or rejecter?
A bit like 'standards' for connectors, formats and anything to do with software then!
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17th Oct 2018, 11:16 am | #22 |
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Re: Rejector or rejecter?
An implementation of a physical property tends to take -or. Thus; resistance, inductance, capacitance, reluctance give us resistor, inductor, capacitor, reluctor. Transistor is merely a contraction of transfer-resistor and thus obeys. I believe these were American in origin, superseding the old British practice of using the quantity itself to name the component e.g. 'fit a 100 ohm resistance.' Impedance got left behind, as I am not aware of the generalised passive device *impedor. But we have transformer, converter, rectifier since there are no properties *transformance, *convertance, *rectifiance.
Terms in common usage outside electronics carry over their own history and rules and don't necessarily obey this principle. |
17th Oct 2018, 11:59 am | #23 |
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Re: Rejector or rejecter?
My only comment about all of this is that I've felt for many years that many American Spellings -e.g. color, flavor, & thru, to name but three, are more logical than the English ones.
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17th Oct 2018, 12:08 pm | #24 |
Dekatron
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Re: Rejector or rejecter?
That's British, not English. As they say, "two countries divided by a common language"
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21st Oct 2018, 12:12 pm | #25 | |
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Re: Rejector or rejecter?
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Rejector for me! Interesting that condensers became capacitors in the 1960's here, but not when they were used in car ignition.
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