These were sometimes combined into the one device.

A. E. van Vogt used the idea as a plot device in his story " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ), which was later combined with the three other Space Beagle stories to became the novel, The Voyage of the Space Beagle.

These two are sometimes combined to form a two-way communication device known as a transceiver.

It may be simultaneously combined with other unit operations to process the feed stream, as in the biofilter, which is a combined filter and biological digestion device.

At the Jülich Institute of Neurosciences and Biophysics, the world's largest PET / MRI device began operation in April 2009: a 9. 4-tesla magnetic resonance tomograph ( MRT ) combined with a positron emission tomograph ( PET ).

A simple machine is an elementary device that has a specific movement ( often called a mechanism ), which can be combined with other devices and movements to form a machine.

The first diving equipment that combined a high-pressure cylinder and a breathing device ( although not a demand regulator as was the Rouquayrol-Denayrouze apparatus ) was invented separately by the Japanese Ohgushi in 1918 and the Frenchmen Maurice Fernez and Yves le Prieur in 1926.

Occasionally, the secondary second-stage regulator is combined with the inflator and exhaust assembly of the BC device.

The two frequencies are combined in a nonlinear signal-processing device such as a vacuum tube, transistor, or diode, usually called a mixer.

The two signals are combined in a device called a mixer.

A transceiver is a device comprising both a transmitter and a receiver which are combined and share common circuitry or a single housing.

The Organiser II can be considered the first usable PDA in that it combined an electronic diary and searchable address database in a small, portable device.

Computer memory in the form of RAM, and at least one other less volatile, memory storage device are usually combined with the CPU on a system bus in one unit.

a device to create a miniature black hole which casts him into an alternative universe ; a device that trains muscles but also distorts the mind of the user ; and a genetic process which, combined with the effect of his black hole, results in a terrifying devolution.

When using cable operator VoIP, a combined customer premises equipment device known as an embedded multimedia terminal adapter ( E-MTA ) will often be used.

In the Song period, the odometer vehicle was also combined with another old complex mechanical device known as the South Pointing Chariot.

As recorded in the Song Shi of the Song Dynasty ( 960-1279 AD ), the odometer and South Pointing Chariot were combined into one wheeled device by engineers of the 9th century, 11th century, and 12th century ( refer to South Pointing Chariot ).

Thus, a legacy switch system can be easily " converted " to allow wavelength multiplexed transport over a fiber simply by judicious choice of transceiver wavelengths, combined with an inexpensive passive optical multiplexing device.

This is a common troubleshooting technique and is often combined with a specialized test device that sends specific patterns and counts any errors that come back ( see Bit Error Rate Test ).

This device combined the a PDA with a mobile phone and operated on the Verizon Wireless network.

In 2004, HP released the iPaq h6315, a device that combined their previous PDA, the HP 2215 with cellular capability.

Often this is combined with an additional plot device whereby the assassin leaves the scene so there is no one to witness the victim's expected demise, thereby giving the captive the opportunity to openly free himself.

The imaging device ( e. g. camera ) can either be separate from the main image processing unit or combined with it in which case the combination is generally called a smart camera or smart sensor.

Though the washboard is generally used today as a musical instrument or sound-making device, many parts of the world still use them for washing clothes.

The entire device is immersed in a test tube containing the collected sample and the following steps ( washing, incubation in conjugate and incubation in chromogens ) are carried out by dipping the ogives in microwells of standard microplates filled with reagents.

The earliest special-purpose washing device was the scrub board, invented in 1797.

It is possible to take this a step further, and to also merge the automatic washing machine and clothes dryer into a single device, called a combo washer dryer.

His " peacock fountain " was another more sophisticated hand washing device featuring humanoid automata as servants which offer soap and towels.

al-Jazari's " peacock fountain " was a more sophisticated hand washing device featuring humanoid automata as servants which offer soap and towels.

A lavabo is a device used to provide water for the washing of hands.

However, the manufacturers negotiated an agreement whereby Dormobile converted vans could be sold without purchase tax, provided they incorporated " built-in life support equipment " such as a cooking device, and facilities for the washing and storage of clothes.

The usual prize is € 50 per correct answer, but sometimes a very bulky device like a washing machine is put down directly in front of the winner after giving the correct answer.

Computers ( and computors ), models of computation: A computer ( or human " computor ") is a restricted type of machine, a " discrete deterministic mechanical device " that blindly follows its instructions.

An assembly language is a low-level programming language for a computer, microcontroller, or other programmable device, in which each statement corresponds to a single machine code instruction.

Also known as a slip clutch or safety clutch, this device allows a rotating shaft to slip when higher than normal resistance is encountered on a machine.

" From these principles and some additional constraints —( 1a ) a lower bound on the linear dimensions of any of the parts, ( 1b ) an upper bound on speed of propagation ( the velocity of light ), ( 2 ) discrete progress of the machine, and ( 3 ) deterministic behavior — he produces a theorem that " What can be calculated by a device satisfying principles I – IV is computable.

Instead of enabling the guest operating system to dialog with hardware, virtual device drivers take the opposite role and emulate a piece of hardware, so that the guest operating system and its drivers running inside a virtual machine can have the illusion of accessing real hardware.

The virtual device driver can also send simulated processor-level events like interrupts into the virtual machine.

Typically, experts are relied on for opinions on severity of injury, degree of insanity, cause of failure in a machine or other device, loss of earnings, care costs, and the like.

French aircraft designer Raymond Saulnier patented a practical device in April 1914, but trials were unsuccessful because of the propensity of the machine gun employed to hang fire due to unreliable ammunition.

In his 1940 essay " Theses on the Philosophy of History ," scholar Walter Benjamin compares historical materialism to The Turk, an 18th Century device which was promoted as a mechanized automaton which could defeat skilled chess players but actually concealed a human who controlled the machine.

Another device, called an electrostencil machine, sometimes was used to make mimeo stencils from a typed or printed original.

Some hardware vendors, especially IBM, use the term as a synonym for firmware, so that all code in a device, whether microcode or machine code, is termed microcode ( such as in a hard drive for instance, which typically contains both ).

Mechanical advantage is a measure of the force amplification achieved by using a tool, mechanical device or machine system.

If we allow a finite automaton access to two stacks instead of just one, we obtain a more powerful device, equivalent in power to a Turing machine.

A linear bounded automaton is a device which is more powerful than a pushdown automaton but less so than a Turing machine.

Both orthographical variants, with and without the hyphen, are correct, but the hyphenated one has, in addition, a second meaning, not related to animation or cinema: " a device for automatically stopping a machine or engine when something has gone wrong " ( The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1993 edition ).

Stories with the device used by the Second Doctor before the screwdriver's first on-screen appearance are plausible as the Doctor in that story indicates that the machine " never fails ", implying its successful use before that adventure.

A simple machine is a mechanical device that changes the direction or magnitude of a force.

In these cases, a mint vending machine was declared to be a gambling device because by ( internally manufactured ) chance the machine would occasionally give the next user a number of tokens exchangeable for more candy.

In 1984 Inge Telnaes received a patent for a device titled, " Electronic Gaming Device Utilizing a Random Number Generator for Selecting the Reel Stop Positions " ( US Patent 4448419 ), which states: “ It is important to make a machine that is perceived to present greater chances of payoff than it actually has within the legal limitations that games of chance must operate .” The patent was later bought by International Game Technology and has since expired.

In 1843 Scottish inventor Alexander Bain invented a device that could be considered the first facsimile machine.

Once a time machine is properly primed, however, with the imprint stored on a device called a " briode nebuliser ", it can be used safely by any species.

A Turing machine is a device that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules.