buncher

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A person who bunches.

   “Often a buncher might come in a little early to have some work ready when rollers arrived.[…]If a buncher ran short of tobacco, the rollers got more for her.”

2. isim A machine that twists strands together during the manufacture of metal wire; a strander.

   “Stranded copper wire and cable are made on machines known as bunchers or stranders. Conventional bunchers are used for stranding small diameter wires (34 to 10 AWG).”

3. isim A circuit that causes electrons or other charged particles in a particle beam to group together.

   “The pulse width can be decreased by means of a buncher, which consists of a longitudinal re-entrant cavity. The first electrons to reach the buncher are accelerated by a weaker longitudinal field than those that reach it at later times.”

4. isim An illegitimate supplier of laboratory animals who obtains the animals by kidnapping pets or illegally trapping strays.
5. isim A ground-based radio transmitter, configured within a system to guide aircraft to their allocated airfields.

   “Each airfield had its own buncher which emitted a particular radio signal. Each plane had a radio compass so that when we flew toward the buncher, the compass would go straight up. When we flew over the buncher, it would point straight down.”