O attenuator

O attenuator

[′ō ə′ten·yə‚wād·ər]

(electronics)

A dissipative attenuator in which the circuit has the form of a ladder with two rungs, and the resistances across the rungs are unequal, so that the impedances across the two pairs of terminals are unequal.

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