quartz oscillator

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Noun1.quartz oscillator - an oscillator that produces electrical oscillations at a frequency determined by the physical characteristics of a piezoelectric quartz crystal
crystal oscillator
oscillator - generator that produces sonic oscillations or alternating current
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To solve this problem, a quartz oscillator at the remote location keeps the time steady between round trips.
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4, this trial indicated that the replacement of the crystal created a higher frequency drift with temperature: 720 Hz for 16.384 MHz quartz oscillator, compared to only 204 Hz for the original 26 MHz oscillator.
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This condition is achieved by using one common high stable source of reference frequency [f.sub.RO] based on a precision quartz oscillator.
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Finally, to make the output of an atomic clock usable, the frequency of the locked quartz oscillator would need to be divided into frequencies low enough to use for timekeeping.
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An extremely stable quartz oscillator, that ticks like a modern wrist-watch but at a very high frequency, was launched into space, together with a complete laser system (for purposes of comparison).
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The frequency change [DELTA] [f.sub.1] of the fundamental mode of the quartz oscillator is principally related with the protein mass [[DELTA].sub.m] adsorbed on the quartz surface by the Sauerbrey equation:
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India, July 5 -- Creative Materials has manufactured electrically conductive and electrically insulating adhesives for quartz oscillator circuits.
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Electronics parts maker Murata Manufacturing dropped 40 yen, or almost 1 percent, to 4,400 yen after saying Thursday it will buy shares in quartz oscillator and filter maker Tokyo Denpa Co.
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Hsu clarified some of the differences between achievable quartz oscillator performance and the current state of MEMS devices.
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