The linear variable differential transformer (LVDT) (also called just a differential transformer, linear variable displacement transformer, or linear variable displacement transducer ) is a type of electrical transformer used for measuring linear displacement (position).

He did a lot of improvisation of tap steps, tap sounds, and tap rhythms alike.

This weariness is interrupted by the knocking of an Indian on your window...tap, tap, tap...

A Tesla coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla around 1891.

Saul Griffith's kites tap wind energy

He said, I'm a tap counter.

I'm even afraid of tap water

That tap must be turned back on.

However, complex messages such as SOAP messages require a parser and a string transformer for them to exhibit intended meanings.

The electrical motor, dynamo, transformer, and electric light, and indeed most of the familiar electrical appliances, were inventions of the West.

On 5 October 1957, the first 380kV powerline in Germany between the transformer station Ludwigsburg Hoheneck and Rommerskirchen went into service.

And then the faucet, there, is a beer tap.

The relevant indicator shows that there has been an increase in the number of homes with improved water supplies, which, in the case of Guatemala, are defined as those with exclusive use of a tap, a tap shared by several homes and a public tap (outside the home).

These different vehicles will be able to tap into countless energy sources.

Both politicians are keen to tap into voters concerns about global warming.

In some areas, this can be obtained through boreholes that tap underground aquifers.

Still, the politics of resentment works best when it can tap into real fears.

... fixed a rubber tube to the metal tap which shone just above my face.

They did ballet they did tap they did jazz they did modern they did contemporary.

Putin s KGB cronies, usually from St. Petersburg, control these institutions, and tap them for huge kickbacks.

But this looks a lot like Japan, where the fiscal tap was tentatively opened and closed.

I rubbed my eyes (metaphorically of course), got out of bed, and turned on the tap.

KA Sort of like the Spinal Tap scene where you get the tiny little Stonehenge, I guess?

I'm going to show you an example of a company that does not have a tap counter.

Strengthen linkages between public research and private industry, and tap into regional and international R D networks.

Retailers are able to access and tap different cost structures in different countries and are becoming global.

They should tap into their diasporas, attract foreign direct investment in new areas, and acquire foreign firms if possible.

First, services growth is beginning to tap a new source of labor income generation, the mainstay of consumer demand.

The Executive Board may wish to approve the extension of the TAP for a two year period, 2006 2007.

It should strengthen its capacity to tap into these networks and cultivate and utilize local gender expertise and capacity.

The report presents the main findings of an independent evaluation of the TAP outlines how the issues raised by the evaluation will be addressed provides recommendations for a two year extension of the TAP and presents elements for a longer term strategy for providing technical assistance.

As world energy prices collapsed, Brazil fortuitously turned off its subsidy tap, whereupon a brutal Darwinian free for all ensued.

Spending it would not add to any country s fiscal deficit. All they need to do is to tap into it.

It is used for step recognition (counting) in a sport application, and for tap gesture recognition in the user interface.

Societies that are able to tap the potential of youth are better adjusted to achieving progress, development and, indeed, prosperity.

The IMF forecasts that the Hariri government should be able to tap capital markets to cover its financial needs for 2010.

Just as a family backstops its savings with insurance, countries should be able to tap into a global financial safety net.

The primary purpose of Russia s foreign policy seems to be to tap Russia s state companies for the benefit of Kremlin officials.

This NAB like vehicle could borrow as needed from countries, including the United States and China, as well as tap financial markets.

Yet part of that increased agricultural output resulted from millions of wells that were sunk to tap underground water supplies for irrigation.

They turned off the tap to agriculture, leaving small farmers to rely on basic farming practices and on government and donor handouts.

Have you drank tap water coming directly from the Nile with all its pollution that is perfectly fit for a chemical war?

The international community should, on the basis of that consensus, tap the full potential of partnerships and vigorously urge their further development.

That also means ending government co financing of operating costs and demanding that the oil companies tap capital markets to bridge the shortfall.

We might try to tap bio fuels, but only in forms that do not compete with food supplies or with precious environmental assets.