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emit·ter

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. emitternoun

    the electrode in a transistor where electrons originate

Wiktionary

  1. emitternoun

    That which emits something.

  2. emitternoun

    The name for one terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).

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  1. emitter

    An emitter is a device, machine, or organism that releases or emits a specified substance, energy, or signal. It can be part of a physical system, electrical circuit, or natural organism. The substance or energy emitted can be in the form of light, heat, sound, radiation, chemical substances, or particles, depending on the type of the emitter. For example, in electronics, an emitter is a part of a transistor through which a current enters. In biology, certain organisms can be emitters of certain chemicals or signals for communication or defense mechanism.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of emitter in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of emitter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of emitter in a Sentence

  1. Iain Keith:

    As the world’s third largest greenhouse gas emitter, Brazilian support is crucial if the world is going to call time on the age of fossil fuels in Paris, now we need to see Brazil spelling out how precisely it intends to do this.

  2. Nancy Pelosi:

    Climate is an overriding issue, and China is a leading emitter in the world.

  3. Nicholas Weaver:

    It may be useful, but for safety's sake you don't want to set it( or really any distinctive emitter) up in Ukraine anywhere close to where you would not want a Russian bomb dropping.

  4. President Barack Obama:

    I've come here personally, as the leader of the world's largest economy and the second-largest emitter, to say that the United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it, over the last seven years, we've made ambitious investments in clean energy and ambitious reductions in our carbon emissions. We've multiplied wind power threefold, and solar power more than twentyfold, helping create parts of America where these clean power sources are finally cheaper than dirtier, conventional power. Chinese President Xi Jinping said that the conference.

  5. President Barack Obama:

    As the leader of the world's largest economy and the second largest emitter ... the United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it.

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