electronic

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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electronic (ɪlɛkˈtrɒnɪk, ˌiːlɛk-)

—*adj*
1.	of, concerned with, using, or operated by devices in which electrons are conducted through a semiconductor, free space, or gas
2.	of or concerned with electronics
3.	of or concerned with electrons or an electron: an electronic energy level in a molecule
4.	involving or concerned with the representation, storage, or transmission of information by electronic systems: electronic mail; electronic shopping

usage Electronic is used to refer to equipment, such as television sets, computers, etc, in which the current is controlled by transistors, valves, and similar components and also to the components themselves. Electrical is used in a more general sense, often to refer to the use of electricity as a whole as opposed to other forms of energy: electrical engineering; an electrical appliance. Electric, in many cases used interchangeably with electrical, is often restricted to the description of particular devices or to concepts relating to the flow of current: electric fire; electric charge

elec'tronically

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

electronic

1902, pertaining to electrons; 1930 as pertaining to electronics; see electron, electronics. Related: Electronically.

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Science Dictionary

electronic

(ĭ-lěk'trŏn'ĭk) Pronunciation Key
Relating to electrical devices that amplify and process electrical signals. Audio amplifiers, radios, and digital circuitry are electronic devices. ◇ The scientific study of the behavior and design of electronic devices and circuits is called electronics. Compare electric.

Example sentences

The nook is an electronic book where you can download books for cheaper than at

the stores.

We planned three tests of the new electronic voting system.

The effects of the electronic media were complex and far from unilinear.

The mathematical foundations of electronics predict the existence of four

fundamental electronic devices.

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"People are more likely to search for specific books in which they are actively interested and that justify all of that effort of reading them. Electronic images and sounds, however, thrust themselves into people's environments, and the messages are received with little effort. In a sense, people must go after print messages, but electronic messages reach out and touch people. People will expose themselves to information in electronic media that they would never bother to read about in a book."

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