Sender dictionary definition

sender - Computer Definition

Also known as a source or a transmitter, a sender is a device that originates, or generates, an information transfer to one or more receivers. See also receiver and transmitter.
A component of an electromagnetic crossbar (Xbar) or panel switch, a sender receives dialed digits from a register or routing information from a translator, and sends the appropriate dialed digits across a trunk or to local station equipment. See also panel switch, register, translator, and Xbar.

This consists of a receiving antenna similar to the sending antenna, and in any wireless telegraph station it is usual to make the one and the same antenna do duty as a receiver or sender by switching it over from one apparatus to the other.
The automatic curb sender was originally designed by Lord Kelvin for the purpose of diminishing the effect of inductive re- Au tardation in long cables.
Battery and to earth alternately, the relative time sender during which it is to battery and to earth depending to a great extent on the operator.
The special form of curb sender mentioned, termed the " Interpolator," has been devised so as to secure the correct re-transmission of any given number of consecutive elements of a letter which are of the same sign, for when signals are received at the end of a long cable the relay arm will not return to its zero position between consecutive elements of the same sign, but will remain on the respective contact surface during the whole time occupied by such consecutive elements.
In Homer Apollo appears only as the god of prophecy, the sender of plagues, and sometimes as a warrior, but elsewhere as exercising the most varied functions.

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