ELECTRONIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electronic mean? 

• ELECTRONIC (adjective)
  The adjective ELECTRONIC has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to electronics; concerned with or using devices that operate on principles governing the behavior of electrons

2. of or concerned with electrons

  Familiarity information: ELECTRONIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTRONIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to electronics; concerned with or using devices that operate on principles governing the behavior of electrons

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

electronic devices

Pertainym:

electronics (the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices)

Derivation:

electronics (the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or concerned with electrons

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

electronic energy

Pertainym:

electron (an elementary particle with negative charge)

Derivation:

electronics (the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices)

 Context examples 

An electronic device designed to produce a wave signal.

(Oscillator Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

Other researchers dispute the notion of a present-day reversal, which would likely affect our heavily electronic world in unusual ways.

(Earth's last magnetic field reversal took far longer than once thought, National Science Foundation)

Base 64 is used when transmitting binary data through text-only media such as electronic mail.

(Base 64, NCI Thesaurus)

An electronic device designed to vary the frequency, amplitude, or phase of an electromagnetic signal.

(Modulator Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

An invasive procedure that includes an electronic device that stimulates both right and left cardiac ventricles to improve coordination of ventricular contraction.

(Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Most of the silicon used in electronic devices comes from silica.

(Exploding Stars Make Key Ingredient in Sand, Glass, NASA)

"In terms of materials engineering, this work shows that these layered systems could be viable in creating new types of electronic devices that take advantage of these new quantum Hall states."

(Research reveals exotic quantum states in double-layer graphene, National Science Foundation)

Most other wearable electronics rely on rigid electronic components mounted on plastic or textiles.

(Washable, wearable battery-like devices could be woven directly into clothes, University of Cambridge)

Most of the current research on graphene targets the development of nanoscale electronic devices.

(Graphene: The more you bend it, the softer it gets, National Science Foundation)

The chip itself is an electronic strip that can be printed onto flexible polyester.

(Scientists say new medical diagnostic chip can sort cells anywhere with an inkjet, Wikinews)