Electronics terms

Updated: 11/12/2023 by Computer Hope

Electronics terms with full definitions and information on each term. Explore this list of over 190 terms like jumpers, transistor, switch, and clock. Navigate quickly through the list by clicking one of the letters below; for example, click 'L' to find terms like LED' in the 'L' section.

Top 10 electronics terms
Vacuum tubes

Lint free cloth
Jumpers
Vacuum tube
Transistor
Switch
Bare chip
Clock
Source
Capacitor
LED

Number

2-in-1

A
Antistatic mat

Adder
Analog
And gate
Antenna
Antistatic
Antistatic bag
Antistatic device
Antistatic mat
APK
Apple Pencil
Attenuation
Attenuator

B

Bare chip
Biological computing
Bipolar
Bitbucket
Blue light
Breadboard
Breadbox
Burn-in

C
Printed circuit board

Cable management
Cable ties
Calibration
Capacitor
CCTV
CDP
Charge
Chip
Circuit
Circuit board
Circuit traces
Clock
Cobot
Coil
Compressed air
Conductor
Continuity
Coulomb
CSAT
Current
Custom silicon
Cyberphobia

D

Dash Button
Datasheet
Degradation
Desiccant
Digital
Digital photo frame
Digital picture frame
Digital signal
Diode
DIP
DLP
Dopant
Drain
DuPont wire

E
ESD warning sticker

EDA
Electricity
Electrolytic
Electromagnetic radiation
Electromagnetic spectrum
ELF emission
EMF
EMI
EMR
ESD

F

Fab
Farad
Faraday bag
Faraday cage
Faraday shield
Ferrofluid
FIFO
Filament
Finite automata
Finite-state machines
Fitness tracker
Flip-flop
Flux
Friode
Fry
Full adder
Fuse

G

Gesture recognition
Google Nexus

H

Half adder
Haptic feedback
Headphone amp
Heat gun
Henry
Hollerith tabulating machine
Hot

I
Integrated Circuit or IC

IC
IEC
IIL
Inductor
Infrared thermometer
Insulator
International Electrotechnical Commission
Inverter
IR

J

Joule
JTAG
Jumper
Jumper wire

K

Currently, no listings.

L

Large-scale integration
LCC
Leach
LED
Libreboot
LIFO
Lint free cloth
Logic gate
Long press

M

Medium-scale integration
Microsecond
Microwave
Millisecond
Mil-Spec
Mil-Std
Modularity
Moore's Law
MOS
MOSFET
Multimeter
Multiplexer

N

Nand gate
NEC
Nor
Nor gate
Not gate

O

Optical time-domain reflectometer
Optoelectronics
Or gate
Oscillation
Oscillator
OTDR

P

PAD
PCB
PCM
Photolithography
Populate
Portmanteau
PowerBook
Pulse

Q

Quartz
Quartz crystal

R

Radio
Receptacle
Relay
Resistors
RoHS

S
Soldering circuit board

Semiconductor
Sentient
SGD
Short
Short-circuit
Shunt
Signal
Silicon
Silicon chip
SIP
SLIC
SLSI
SMT
SOI
Solder
Solid-state device
Solid-state relay
Source
Speech-generating device
Spudger
SSI
State machine
Stick computer
Surface Book
Surface Go
Surface Laptop
Surface Pen
Surface Pro
Surface Studio
Switch
Swype

T

Tantalum
TDP
Temperature gun
Transducer
Transformer
Transient
Transistor

U

Unpopulated board
USRT

V

Vacuum tube
Very large-scale integration
VLSI
Voltage regulator

W
Silicon wafer

Wafer
Wattmeter
Wave
Wave bubble
Wear OS
Wii
Wii U
Wire
Wired
Wrist strap

X

Currently, no listings.

Y

Currently, no listings.

Z

Currently, no listings.

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