pickup

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.