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pickup
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pickup [′pik‚əp]
(aerospace engineering)
A potentiometer used in an automatic pilot to detect the motion of the airplane around the gyro and initiate corrective adjustments.
(electricity)
A device that converts a sound, scene, measurable quantity, or other form of intelligence into corresponding electric signals, as in a microphone, phonograph pickup, or television camera.
The minimum current, voltage, power, or other value at which a relay will complete its intended function.
Interference from a nearby circuit or system.
(metallurgy)
Transfer of metal from the work to the tool, or from the tool to the work, during a forming operation.
(nuclear physics)
A type of nuclear reaction in which the incident particle takes a nucleon from the target nucleus and proceeds with this nucleon bound to itself.


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