Basic Hobby Electronics Vocabulary Part 2 of 4 (D-G)

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Digital Circuit: A circuit in which inputs and outputs have only two possible states: low (0) or high (1).

Diode: A two-terminal electronic device that allows current to flow in only one direction.

Direct Current (DC): Current that flows across a material in one direction only.

Disc Capacitor: A type of capacitor that has low capacitance and is used mostly in high frequency circuits. Disc capacitors are not polarized.

Electrolytic Capacitor: A type of capacitor that has high capacitance and is used mostly in low frequency circuits. Electrolytic capacitors are polarized.

Electronics: The science and technology concerned with and based on electricity and its applications.

Farad (F): The unit of measure for capacitance.

Ground: A common name for the reference point in an electrical circuit at which the measured voltage is taken to be zero.

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