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nonuniform plane wave has varying ampli- (2) a wave having as equiphase surface a plane. It is commonly represented by the j (ωt−k·r) where ω is the angular frequency, t is the time, r is the position vector, and k is the wave vec- plane-parallel resonator a laser res- onator in which the mirrors are flat and par- planned outage an interruption in service to consumers which has been caused by a se- plasma the fourth state of matter com- prised of positive ions and negative elec- plasma frequency a critical frequency in a plasma (e.g., ionosphere) below which p the wave gets refracted towards Earth. plasmon a polariton in a plasma medium. plastic a term for a flexible roll-on poly- mer insulation layer. plate the positive electrode or anode in a vacuum tube. platinotron a strap feed starting radial M- type backward wave oscillator. platter See plausibility function a function that gives a measure of plausibility or belief. PLC See PLD See PLL See plosives sounds produced when the vocal tract, completely shut off at a certain point, /b/, /d/, /g/), while in the second case we have voiceless plosives ( /p/, /t/, /k/). plossl an eyepiece consisting of four lens elements, a pair of cemented doublets facing Plotkin’s upper bound for any (n, k) linear block code, the minimum distance is n → ∞ 1 − k ≥ 2 d plug fuse a small fuse with a threaded base designed to be installed in a mated screw-type plug-in board a printed-circuit board that can be plugged into another board or module plugging a procedure to bring a three- phase motor to an abrupt stop by reversing Plumbicon tube a type of camera tube first developed in the 1960s by Philips. c 2000 by CRC Press LLC |