Mixer - mixer (English spelling)

Japanese: ミキサー - みきさー(英語表記)mixer
Mixer - mixer (English spelling)

It can refer to a device for mixing, or a person who uses that device to mix. People in the electronics industry in particular call them mixers.

In the home, it is an electrical appliance that crushes and mixes fruits and vegetables to make juice, etc. In construction sites, it is a concrete mixer that mixes concrete and gravel.

In a studio, it refers to the equipment or the operator that appropriately combines signals from several microphones and television cameras to create effective audio and visuals for radio and television broadcasts.

In a receiver, the circuit that mixes the incoming radio frequency signal with the output from the local oscillator circuit using a nonlinear element to convert it to an intermediate frequency is called a mixer, and the element is called a mixer diode.

[Michinori Iwata]

[Reference] | Concrete mixer | Mixer | Electric mixer

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

混合するための機器、またはその機器を用いて混合する人の意で用いる。とくにエレクトロニクス関係者はミクサーとよぶ。

 家庭では、果物や野菜などを粉砕、攪拌(かくはん)してジュースなどをつくる電気器具をいう。工事場では、コンクリートと砂利を混合するコンクリートミキサーをいう。

 スタジオでは、ラジオやテレビ放送などにいくつかのマイクロホンやテレビカメラからの信号を適宜組み合わせて、効果的な音響・映像をつくる装置またはそのオペレーターをいう。

 受信機では、到来した無線周波数の信号と局部発振回路からの出力を非線形素子で混合し中間周波数に変換する回路をミクサーとよび、素子をミクサーダイオードという。

[岩田倫典]

[参照項目] | コンクリートミキサー | 混合機 | 電気ミキサー

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