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oscilloscope noun. E20.
[formed as OSCILLOGRAPH + -O- + -SCOPE.]
1. A stroboscopic apparatus used to make visible any irregularities in the motion of rapidly rotating or oscillating machinery. Only in E20.
2. An oscillograph. Now spec. (more fully cathode-ray oscilloscope), an electronic instrument in which the position of a moving spot on the screen of a cathode-ray tube represents the relationship between two variables, usu. a signal voltage (vertically) and time (horizontally), and which is capable of displaying a periodic variation in voltage as a stationary curve. E20.
oscilloscopic adjective M20.
oscilloscopically adverb by means of an oscilloscope M20.