How to Use oscilloscope in a Sentence

oscilloscope

noun

• Still, for those who work with oscilloscopes, this might be a nice way to slack off for five minutes or so.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2015
• In a sense, that was not such a stretch of a prediction, because even in 1968, there had already been oscilloscope-style EKG displays for some time.
  — Stephen Wolfram, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2018
• Of course, the game has appeared on other oscilloscope models.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2015
• Batting a ball back and forth is one of the oldest concepts in video games, dating back to the days of William Higinbotham’s Tennis for Two oscilloscope experiments in the ‘50s.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 22 June 2018
• The oversized reel-to-reel console, complete with wave-form monitors and oscilloscopes, looks like a relic of the Gemini program.
  — Kevin Cook, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
• In 1943 Bell Labs discovered that a teletype machine would cause a nearby oscilloscope's readings to move every time someone typed on it.
  — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 21 June 2020
• The oscilloscope was fast enough to capture key features of the data – but recording the output for later analysis was a challenge before Land’s instant camera came along.
  — Ann Elsner, Smithsonian, 18 May 2018
• Tektronix helped popularize the oscilloscope, which became a staple of engineers' lab benches around the world.
  — Mike Rogoway, OregonLive.com, 20 July 2017
• Ekanayake spent the remainder of the afternoon going back and forth from his lab to the parking garage—carrying his multimeter, his soldering station, his oscilloscope and numerous bags of cables, wires and circuit boards.
  — Dieynaba Young, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2020
• Using an oscilloscope, the attacker monitors the energy consumption of the device.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2020
• For decades, research labs and medical facilities have used setups consisting of a Polaroid camera and a mounting rig to collect electrical signals displayed on oscilloscope screens.
  — Ann Elsner, Smithsonian, 18 May 2018
• Tektronix makes oscilloscopes and similar instruments that engineers use to test and evaluate electronic devices.
  — Mike Rogoway, oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2019
• Experiments or medical tests needed graphical or pictorial output for interpretation, often from an analog oscilloscope which plotted out a voltage or current change over time.
  — Ann Elsner, Smithsonian, 18 May 2018
• Godfather to Oregon’s technology industry, Tektronix makes oscilloscopes that engineers use to measure the performance of electronic devices.
  — Mike Rogoway, oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2019
• Its most recent product, called Moku:Go, delivers the functionality of an oscilloscope, constant temperature controller, logic analyzer, arbitrary waveform generator, data logger, spectrum analyzer and other tasks in one device.
  — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2021

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024