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Commonly used terms in the Electrical industry.
half-wave rectifier
a device that passes positive polarity portions of a signal and blocks negative polarity portions of an AC signal. Ideally, for a sinusoidal input vi.t) = Vm cos.!t/, the output equals the input while the input is positive and is zero while the input is negative.