electronics · electrical

devices that use electricity to change information with parts in a structure

Electronics (noun) means: devices that use electricity to change information with parts in a structure. It emerges from electricity, device, structure, change: electricity flows through structured parts in a device, using controlled change to encode or transform information. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 7, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

Examples

• The Apollo Guidance Computer directed lunar landings using integrated circuits powered by the spacecraft's electrical system. engineering
• The 2003 Northeast Blackout halted traffic signals, hospital equipment, and communication networks across eight U.S. states. event
• The IBM 1401 processed payroll data for businesses in the 1960s using transistorized circuitry and magnetic core memory. computing

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

Relations

Provenance