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Mining

Of or pertaining to the process or business of extracting materials, such as ore or minerals, from the earth's crust.

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degree

Astronomy; General astronomy

A unit used in the measurement of angles, heavily used particularly in astronomy. Due to ancient Babylonian mathematics, we still divide a circle into 360 even units of arc and ...

set-top box

Entertainment; TV

A stand-alone device that receives and decodes programming so that it may be displayed on a television. Set-top boxes may be used to receive broadcast, cable, and satellite ...

signal booster

Entertainment; TV

A device that receives an incoming broadcast signal, amplifies it, and retransmits it on the same frequency. Such devices are used to improve communications in locations within ...

camera control unit (CCU)

Consumer electronics; Video camera

The CCU provides a means of controlling a remote camera. So that the remote camera can be as small and light as possible, the CCU also includes all electronic circuits that do not ...

C-mount

Consumer electronics; Video camera

Type of camera mount in which there is 17.526 mm clearance between the lens rear mounting surface and the camera’s CCD.

composite sync

Consumer electronics; Video camera

Combination of the HD and VD in one signal. Commonly used as a synchronizing or genlock signal in B/W systems.

donpisha

Consumer electronics; Video camera

Means "immediate" in Japanese. CCD sensor shuttering technology for asynchronous shooting of fast moving objects without a time delay.

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