Welcome to the electronics glossary in our library!

The following glossary entries were abstracted from the book, Bebop to the Boolean Boogie (An Unconventional Guide to Electronics), with the kind permission of LLH Technology Publishing, Eagle Rock, VA, USA                          ( to return to the main glossary.)

A graphical technique for representing a logical function. Karnaugh maps are often useful for the purposes of minimization.

A scale of temperature which was invented by the British mathematician and physicist William Thomas, first Baron of Kelvin. Under the Kelvin, or absolute, scale of temperature, 0 K (corresponding to -273oC) is the coldest possible temperature and is known as absolute zero.

Unit qualifier (symbol = K) representing one thousand, or 10³. For example, 3KHz stands for
3 x 10³ Hertz.

A fish cured by smoking and salting.

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