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AAC ( see Advanced Audio Coding)
AAL ( see ATM adaptation layer)
ABR ( see Available bit rate)
Absolute worst-case analysis, 3.79
Absolutely optimal code, 1.15
AC current measurement, 25.14
AC impedance measurement, 15.43 15.44
AC regulators, 13.69 13.72
power flow control with, 13.69 13.72
in static VAR generators, 13.71 13.72
AC servo amplifiers, 11.92 11.93
AC voltage measurement, 25.12 25.13
AC-3 decoding, 21.124, 21.132 21.133
ACATS ( see Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Systems)
ACC ( see Adaptive cruise control)
Accelerated life model, 3.46 3.47, 3.84
Accelerated life tests, 3.45
Acceleration:
and capacitors, 3.25 3.26
of quartz crystal devices, 5.24
Acceleration sensing devices, 24.21 24.23
Acceleration transducers ( see Accelerometers)
Accelerator klystrons, 7.31 7.32
Accelerometers, 8.10 8.12
automotive applications for, 24.22 24.23
as knock sensors, 24.25
piezoceramic, 24.25 24.26
piezoelectric, 8.12, 24.21 24.22
potentiometric, 8.11
reluctive, 8.11
servo, 8.11 8.12
strain-gage, 8.11
Acceptor impurities, 5.35
Accutune magnetrons, 7.52
Acoustic amplifiers, 11.70 11.79
acoustoelectric interaction in, 11.70 11.71
bulk-wave, 11.72 11.73
piezoelectric materials in, 11.71 11.72
and SAW-amplifier analysis, 11.74 11.79
and stress waves in solids, 11.72
surface-wave, 11.73 11.75
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