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Meaning of brightup | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A pulse of the beam (cathode ray) in a cathode ray tube that causes a blank screen to fluoresce.

uncountable

Examples

“The effect of parasitic brightup of the picture tube glass on the accuracy of position measurements is considered.”
“Any variation of the apparent start of the trace indicates a brightup (unblanking) pulse with a poor leading edge, […]”
“An additional output from the timebase section is the blanking pulse which biases back the grid of the c.r.t. during flyback; this may be supplemented by a “brightup' pulse which switches the beam on during the forward stroke”
“[…] but instead are used to modulate the oscilloscope brightness, one brightup of the beam corresponding to each fringe maximum.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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