Schottky diodes are majority carrier devices and so do not suffer from minority carrier storage problems that slow down many other diodes — so they have a faster reverse recovery than p – n junction diodes.

A written acknowledgment does appear on-screen that the Royal Navy captured the first, and subsequently the vast majority, of the Naval Enigma devices.

* The majority of iriver devices provide Ogg Vorbis support up to Q10 bitrates.

But, depending on the organization, the majority of the devices that need calibration can have several ranges and many functionalities in a single instrument.

The majority of prosthetic devices are for below the knee amputees and a intimate socket fit will provided improved comfort and gait patterns.

Two-stroke engines still using premix are hand-held two-stroke devices, such as chainsaws ( which must operate in any attitude ), the majority of model engines, British Seagull outboard motors, and off-road motorcycles.

As of December 2006, devices that support only CBR encoded files are largely obsolete, as the vast majority of modern portable music devices and software support VBR encoded files.

In fact, for the majority of modern devices with this kind of control, the remote contains all the function controls while the controlled device itself only has a handful of essential primary controls.

Typically delivered by telephone, or other telecommunication means, the great majority of such threats are sociopathic behavior, intended to cause disruption, revenge or play practical jokes, rather than warning of real devices ..

The majority of locked-in syndrome patients do not regain motor control, but devices are available to help patients communicate.

More than four dozen devices have been certified under the FCC UWB rules, the vast majority of which are radar, imaging or locating systems.

Relentless market forces have dramatically improved these devices over the years, and today the low-cost and high-performance DRAM forms the vast majority of a typical computer's main memory.

The vast majority of digital devices do not require a clock at a fixed, constant frequency.

The majority of pipeline maintenance is done by pipeline pigs — mechanical devices sent through the pipeline to perform a variety of functions.

The airplane gained supplemental type certification in 2003, and the majority of 737s delivered today are equipped with the devices.

Thus, the majority of devices capable of functioning as camcorders are camera phones or compact digital cameras, for which video is only a feature or a secondary capability.

The majority of manufacturers of electricity meters have radio frequency devices in the frequency band of 433 / 868 MHz for large scale deployment in European countries.

However, the traversing carriers hugely outnumber their opposite type in the transfer region ( in fact, the opposite type carriers are removed by an applied electric field that creates an inversion layer ), so conventionally the source and drain designation for the carriers is adopted, and FETs are called " majority carrier " devices.

When the fluid is contained between two poles ( typically of separation 0. 5 – 2 mm in the majority of devices ), the resulting chains of particles restrict the movement of the fluid, perpendicular to the direction of flux, effectively increasing its viscosity.

While all full-power stations have been forced to turn off their analog signals, and most low-power TV stations therefore have been forced to digital as the de facto standard, the vast majority of stations do not transmit a mobile-TV signal, which will leave viewers with these devices unable to receive most broadcasts.

The vast majority of patients with low vision can be helped to function at a higher level with the use of low vision devices.

The majority of phreakers used software to obtain calling card numbers and built simple tone devices in order to make free telephone calls.

More practically, the Chernoff bound is used in randomized algorithms ( or in computational devices such as quantum computers ) to determine a bound on the number of runs necessary to determine a value by majority agreement, up to a specified probability.

And the great majority of these people are of Anglo-Saxon or Celtic descent.

It was my desire to advise the membership of the Legion that the majority of polling places are on private property and, without an amendment to the law, we could not enforce this.

Taxation of tangible movable property in Rhode Island has been generally of a `` hands off '' nature due possibly to several reasons: ( 1 ) local assessors, in the main, are not well paid and have inadequate office staffs, ( 2 ) the numerous categories of this component of personal property make locating extremely difficult, and ( 3 ) the inexperience of the majority of assessors in evaluating this type of property.

A recent survey disclosed there are about 4,000 commercially and municipally operated marinas and boatyards in the United States, the majority of which are equipped to handle outboard boats.

The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.

And while all concerned are members of the literal public, somewhat less than all concerned, although still a majority, form the quotation marked `` public ''.

the majority of such contacts are with people of similar social and economic position ; ;

Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

The majority of the clocks are caesium clocks ; the definition of the SI second is written in terms of caesium.

In the majority of species of caecilians, the young are produced by vivipary.

In pure water the majority of molecules exist as H < sub > 2 </ sub > O, but a small number of molecules are constantly dissociating and re-associating.

The majority of scientific contributions by amateur astronomers are in the area of data collection.

Had the AMD been allowed to depreciate to its market level, exports would have become more competitive and the purchasing power of the majority of the population who are dependent on remittances from abroad would have increased.

The majority of lands in American Samoa and independent Samoa are communal.

This means that the individual atoms can be treated as if each were in isolation, as the vast majority of the time they are.

The great majority of Anglicans are members of churches which are part of the international Anglican Communion .< ref name =" acomm ">

The majority of abalone species are found in cold waters, off the Southern Hemisphere coasts of New Zealand, South Africa and Australia, and Western North America and Japan in the Northern Hemisphere.

Primitive Baptists in the Appalachian region often used " New Britain " with other hymns, and sometimes sing the words of " Amazing Grace " to other folk songs, including titles such as " In the Pines ", " Pisgah ", " Primrose ", and " Evan ", as all are able to be sung in common meter, of which the majority of their repertoire consists.

Once the game ends, the minority and majority bonuses are paid to the minority and majority holders in each of the remaining chains ; each player sells his or her shares of stock in each of the remaining chains ; and the player with the most money wins.

* 1989 – General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista National Liberation Front winning a majority.