transducers
|trans-du-cer|
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/trænsˈduːsər/
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/trænzˈdjuːsə/
(transducer)
energy conversion device
Etymology
'transducer' originates from Latin elements: the prefix 'trans-' meaning 'across' and the root from Latin 'ducere' meaning 'to lead', brought into English as a technical formation.
'transducer' derives from the Latin verb 'transducere' ('to lead across'); the term was adopted in technical contexts (New Latin/modern English coinage) in the late 19th to early 20th century and became the modern English word 'transducer'.
Initially tied to the literal sense 'that which leads across', it evolved into the technical sense 'a device that converts one form of energy or signal into another'.
Meanings by Part of Speech
Noun 1
a device that converts one form of energy or signal into another (e.g., a microphone converts sound into an electrical signal; a speaker converts electrical signals into sound).
Transducers in the microphone convert sound into electrical signals.
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Noun 2
in computing and formal language theory, a device or model (such as a finite-state transducer) that maps input sequences to output sequences.
Transducers are used in some NLP systems to map input token sequences to output forms.
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Last updated: 2025/12/26 07:40