Capacitance Electronic Disc

CEDs are conductive vinyl platters that are 30.0 cm (11.8 in) in diameter. To avoid using the metric system to name their discs, they were called "12 inch discs" even though they were actually slightly smaller. Each side of the disc has grooves that are about 19 miles long and are 37 times smaller than the grooves on a regular phonograph record. When the disc is playing, it spins at about 450 times per minute and each rotation of the disc contained several frames of audio and visual information.

To read the disc, a titanium needle was placed very lightly on the outer edge of the disc. A small electric current was then passed thru the center of the needle, where it would touch the bottom of the groove and read the audio information, which was stored in small holes. The needle would read these by detecting how much air was between the needle and the pit and then the electronics of the player would convert these into audio. The visual information was stored in the grooves and were read like a regular phonograph record. As the needle passed over the grooves, it would vibrate and the player would convert the vibrations into the pictures.

"Man, why use Laserdiscs when you can use Capacitance Electronic Discs!"

by Fox McCloud 123 September 30, 2011

electronica

Electronica does not exist. Not as a genre or a description. It was coined by the North American music press to refer to the second wave of electronic music's explosion in the late 90s, and exists purely as a marketing buzzword, not any actual quantifiable branch of music (the first wave of electronic music, incidentally, they called 'techno', and, having driven the word into the ground beyond all sense of meaning, they couldn't keep using it if they wished to re-market the music). Daft Punk, Fatboy Slim, Prodigy's 'Fat of the Land', Chemical Brothers and other big-time stars of that period were all called "electronica" at one point or another, but the person who really popularized it in the public consciousness was Madonna and her shallow, William Orbit-produced piss-poor attempt at appropriating trance music as something she invented (Ray of Light). She used that word all the damn time in interviews. God I hate her. So yeah: There is no such thing as electronica. -Ishkur

"I don't listen to electronica. I do listen to EDM, though."

by Aerta June 22, 2009

electronical

anything involving electronics

The stereo is an electronical device.

by Karen Cullum March 31, 2005

electrolites

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by lolabean November 23, 2009

electronica

A genre of music which is mainly created by the use of computer systems and other electronic devices. Includes many differnt styles such as Techno, Trance, Breakbeats, NRG, Melodic, etc.

Yeah I reckon my favourite style of electronica would probably be Hard Trance.

by pRopS June 25, 2003

electronic crack

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When a new user stumbles on the FC message board, they are there for life. Often, they will inform the board of their planned departure, but inevitably return to get their fix.

FC is like electronic crack. Enter at your own risk.

by mongoloid August 14, 2004

electronic tagging

When your mobile (cell) phone is abused by your significant other to ask the four mobile questions:
1. Where are you?
2. Who are you with?
3. What are you doing?
4. When will you be coming home?

Oh-oh I gotta reject this call, it's my electronic tagging.

by Arjuna Krishna-Das July 9, 2006