When radio came in, it continued the misplaced modifier in its routines as a standard device.

When the current through the device is reversed, the electrodes switch functions, so anode becomes cathode, while cathode becomes anode, as long as the reversed current is applied, with the exception of diodes where electrode naming is always based on the forward current direction.

When a device is designed to perform without the need of human inputs for correction it is called automatic control ( such as cruise control for regulating a car's speed ).

When the rode is slack, the catenary curve presents a lower angle of pull on the anchor or mooring device than would be the case if it were nearly straight.

When the only allowed program memory is ROM, the device is known as a microcontroller.

When a new symbol has been entered, the device typically sends an interrupt to alert the CPU to read it.

When one of the replicated devices is detected to be defective, the other copy is still operational, and is being utilized to generate a new copy on another device ( usually available operational in a pool of stand-by devices for this purpose ).

When one of the replicated devices is detected to be defective, the other copy is still operational, and is being utilized to generate a new copy on another device ( usually available operational in a pool of stand-by devices for this purpose ).

When a DHCP-configured client ( a computer or any other network-aware device ) connects to a network, the DHCP client sends a broadcast query requesting necessary information to a DHCP server.

When a calling program invokes a routine in the driver, the driver issues commands to the device.

When certain EEG seizure criteria are met, the device delivers a small electrical charge to other electrodes near the epileptic focus, which disrupt the seizure.

When either writing through or directly to physical device registers, this may, but not necessarily, cause a real interrupt to occur at the device's central processor unit ( CPU ), if it has one.

When a light-emitting diode is forward-biased ( switched on ), electrons are able to recombine with electron holes within the device, releasing energy in the form of photons.

When a MIDI continuous controller number is assigned to one of these parameters, the device will respond to any messages it receives that are identified by that number.

When an electronic device causes an interrupt, the intermediate results ( registers ) have to be saved before the software responsible for handling the interrupt can run.

When printed to a PostScript output device, the unneeded parts of the OpenType font are omitted, and what is sent to the device by the driver is the same as it would be for a TrueType or Type 1 font, depending on which kind of outlines were present in the OpenType font.

When the device swivels, and some roll is added, the wheel tends to pitch.

When Steven Moffat took over in 2010, he introduced cracks in the universe which erase events and individuals from history ; using this device, he ' undid ' the events of " Journey's End " and " The Next Doctor " so that in the series ' narrative, the people of Earth would be ( once again ) unaware of alien life.

When feature widths were far greater than about 10 micrometres, purity was not the issue that it is today in device manufacturing.

When a device selection was sent out on a mainframe's channel, the selection was sent from X -> Y -> Z -> Y -> X.

) When a landline phone is inactive or " on hook ", the circuitry at the telephone exchange detects the absence of direct current and therefore " knows " that the phone is on hook ( therefore, only AC current will go through ) with only the alerting device electrically connected to the line.

When the called party picks up the handset, they actuate a double-circuit switchhook ( not shown ) which simultaneously disconnects the alerting device and connects the audio circuitry to the line.

When electrification came, Americans began to speak of trolleycars or later, trolleys, believed to derive from the troller, a four-wheeled device that was dragged along dual overhead wires by a cable that connected the troller to the top of the car and collected electrical power from the overhead wires, sometimes simply strung, sometimes on a catenary.

When the plastic is cool, the carbon grains are all in contact with each other, forming a conductive path through the device.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.