positive temperature coefficient

  • 1Positive temperature coefficient — (PTC) refers to materials that experience an increase in electrical resistance when their temperature is raised. Materials which have useful engineering applications usually show a relatively rapid increase with temperature, i.e. a higher… …

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  • 2positive temperature coefficient of resistance — teigiamasis temperatūrinis varžos koeficientas statusas T sritis radioelektronika atitikmenys: angl. positive temperature coefficient of resistance vok. positives Widerstandstemperaturkoeffizient, m rus. положительный температурный коэффициент… …

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  • 3positive temperature coefficient — (PTC) a thermistor (temperature sensor) whose resistance increases as the temperature increase. The opposite of a negative temperature coefficient (NTC) thermistor …

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  • 4positive temperature coefficient — noun : a larger than 1 ratio of a quantity (as resistance or length) at a higher temperature to the corresponding value of the quantity at a lower temperature …

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  • 5positive temperature coefficient thermistor — (PTC) Electronic thermistor which increases in resistance as temperature increases …

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  • 6Temperature coefficient — The temperature coefficient is the relative change of a physical property when the temperature is changed by 1 K. In the following formula, let R be the physical property to be measured and T be the temperature at which the property is… …

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  • 7Negative temperature coefficient — A negative temperature coefficient (NTC) occurs when the thermal conductivity of a material rises with increasing temperature, typically in a defined temperature range. For most materials, the thermal conductivity will decrease with increasing… …

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  • 8Coefficient de température négative — Thermistance Les principaux capteurs de température utilisés en électronique sont basés sur la loi de variation d’une résistance. Ces éléments ne suivent pas la loi d’Ohm : ce sont des résistances non linéaires. Thermo résistances :… …

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  • 9coefficient positif de température de résistance — teigiamasis temperatūrinis varžos koeficientas statusas T sritis radioelektronika atitikmenys: angl. positive temperature coefficient of resistance vok. positives Widerstandstemperaturkoeffizient, m rus. положительный температурный коэффициент… …

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  • 10Coefficient of variation — In probability theory and statistics, the coefficient of variation (CV) is a normalized measure of dispersion of a probability distribution. It is also known as unitized risk or the variation coefficient. The absolute value of the CV is sometimes …

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