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noun

input

CEFR B2

signal going into an electronic system

In a sentence

Six example sentences with input, each labelled with its topic.

  • The amplifier hummed until the engineer moved the guitar cable to a different input on the back panel.

    Music

  • A stray voltage spike on the sensor input crashed the controller, so the team added a filter capacitor.

    Technology

  • The arcade cabinet reads the joystick as an input and lights the corresponding lamp on the diagnostic board.

    Gaming

  • The oscilloscope showed noise on the input long before the probe touched anything, so the fault was in the cable.

    Science

  • The sound mixer routed each microphone to its own input, so a cough on the boom track could be cut cleanly.

    Movies

  • A loose electrode sent a ragged signal to the monitor's input, and the false alarm brought two nurses running.

    Medicine

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