Glossary
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DIO
digital input/output
F
F
(1) Fahrenheit—a temperature measurement scale;
(2) farad—a measurement unit of capacitance
F
s
frequency source
frequency
the number of alternating signals that occur per unit time
H
hysteresis
the window below a certain trigger level a signal must pass before the
trigger occurs
Hz
hertz—cycles per second of a periodic signal. The unit of measure for
frequency.
I
I/O
input/output—the transfer of data to/from a computer system involving
communications channels, operator interface devices, and/or data
acquisition and control interfaces
II
input current leakage
in.
inch or inches
K
K
kelvin
kbytes/s
a unit for data transfer that means 1,000 or 10
3
bytes/s
kS
1,000 samples
M
M
(1) Mega, the standard metric prefix for 1 million or 10
6
, when used with
units of measure such as volts and hertz; (2) mega, the prefix for 1,048,576,
or 2
20
, when used with B to quantify data or computer memory
MB
megabytes