Modern Dictionary of Electronics » (REVISED)

A professional technical writer, Rudolf Graf is an author whose name is familiar to electronics professionals and hobbyists alike. His many books offer a practical and enjoyable approach to often complex material. Mr. Graf is a graduate electronics engineer, and received his MBA at New York University. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a licensed amateur radio operator, and holder of a first-class radio telephone operator's license. He currently lives in New York.

Included in this fully revised classic are well over 28,000 terms, phrases, acronyms, and abbreviations from the ever-expanding worlds of consumer electronics, optics, microelectronics, computers, communications, and medical electronics. From the basic elements of theory to the most cutting-edge circuit technology, this book explains it all in both words and pictures. For easy reference, the author has provided definitions for standard abbreviations and equations as well as tables of SI (International System of Units) units, measurements, and schematic symbols

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Two and a half times the size of the original 1961 edition, popular electronics writer Graf's standard reference defines terms as they are actually used in the trade rather than as the technician who first coined them intended them to mean. He includes terms, acronyms, and abbreviations from basic theory to emerging technology in consumer electronics, optics, microelectronics, computers, communications, and medical electronics. Many drawings and diagrams help clarify the text. He does not cross-reference very much and includes no index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)