Using the methods or principles of electronics as part of the working mechanism; -- of devices; as, electronic circuit; electronic devices; electronic entertainment devices.
The technical discipline of providing a protective enclosure for an electronic circuit so that it is able to perform in a specified range of environmental conditions.
The use of active electronic components (integrated circuits, transistors, valves etc) which require a power supply to function. Such "active" components will always be used in conjunction with passive components
caused or operated by electric, magnetic, electro-magnetic, electro-chemical, or electro-mechanical energy. "Electronic" is sometimes used interchangeably with " digital". Most forms of electronic storage will be digital, but electronic storage can also be analogue (for example, some forms of electro-magnetic or magnetic storing data). (See also Digital and Analogue.)
Circuits in which all switching is done by the electrons themselves, as in a vacuum tube or transistor. Because the mass of an electron is so small, electronic switches are much faster than electromechanical ones.
Describes the use of electricity by a device such as a computer or a television set. Electronic devices used to employ vacuum tubes to control the flow of electrons but now use semiconductors. In current computer jargon, the terms "digital" and "electronic" are used almost interchangeably to describe computer oriented devices (i.e., digital or electronic files, digital or electronic prepress systems, etc.).
Related to the movement and control of free electrons in semiconductors or vacuum devices.