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oscilloscope

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /əˈsɪl.ɪ.skəʊp/
  • UK: /ˈɒˌsɪl.ɪ.skəʊp/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: AO2 S IH1 L AH0 S K OW2 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

An electronic measuring instrument that creates a visible two-dimensional graph, on a screen, of one or more continuously varying voltages or currents.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: scope, cathode-ray oscilloscope, CRO

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: electronic equipment

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English oscillo- Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai) Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Hellenic *-ós ▲ Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ. Ancient Greek -ός (-ós) Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh1ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh1yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der. English -scope English oscilloscope From oscillo- + -scope.

Across languages

Translations

46 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: oshiloskopi — electronic measuring instrument
  • Arabic: ذُبذاب (zobzab) — electronic measuring instrument
  • Azerbaijani: osiloskop — electronic measuring instrument
  • Basque: osziloskopio — electronic measuring instrument
  • Belarusian: асцыло́граф (ascylóhraf) — electronic measuring instrument
  • Bulgarian: осцилоско́п (osciloskóp) — electronic measuring instrument
  • Burmese: အော်ဆီလိုစကုပ် (auhciluica.kup) — electronic measuring instrument
  • Catalan: oscil·loscopi — electronic measuring instrument
  • Catalan: oscil·lògraf — electronic measuring instrument
  • Chinese Mandarin: 示波器 (shìbōqì) — electronic measuring instrument
  • Czech: osciloskop — electronic measuring instrument
  • Danish: oscilloskop — electronic measuring instrument
  • Dutch: oscilloscoop — electronic measuring instrument
  • Esperanto: osciloskopo — electronic measuring instrument
  • Finnish: oskilloskooppi — electronic measuring instrument
  • French: oscilloscope — electronic measuring instrument
  • German: Oszilloskop — electronic measuring instrument
  • Greek: παλμογράφος (palmográfos) — electronic measuring instrument
  • Hebrew: משקף תנודות (mashkéf tnudot) — electronic measuring instrument
  • Hebrew: אוסילוקופ (osiloskóp) — electronic measuring instrument
  • Hindi: दोलनदर्शी (dolandarśī) — electronic measuring instrument
  • Hungarian: oszcilloszkóp — electronic measuring instrument
  • Icelandic: sveiflusjá — electronic measuring instrument
  • Italian: oscilloscopio — electronic measuring instrument
  • Japanese: オシロスコープ — electronic measuring instrument
  • Kazakh: осциллограф (ossillograf) — electronic measuring instrument
  • Khmer: អូស៊ីឡូស្កុប (ʼousiilouskop) — electronic measuring instrument
  • Korean: 오실로스코프 (osilloseukopeu) — electronic measuring instrument
  • Latvian: osciloskops — electronic measuring instrument
  • Lithuanian: osciloskopas — electronic measuring instrument
  • Polish: oscyloskop — electronic measuring instrument
  • Portuguese: osciloscópio — electronic measuring instrument
  • Romanian: osciloscop — electronic measuring instrument
  • Russian: осцилло́граф (oscillógraf) — electronic measuring instrument
  • Slovak: osciloskop — electronic measuring instrument
  • Slovene: osciloskop — electronic measuring instrument
  • Spanish: osciloscopio — electronic measuring instrument
  • Swedish: oscilloskop — electronic measuring instrument
  • Tagalog: tuguysipat — electronic measuring instrument
  • Tamil: அலைவுகாட்டி (alaivukāṭṭi) — electronic measuring instrument
  • Thai: ออสซิลโลสโคป — electronic measuring instrument
  • Turkish: osiloskop — electronic measuring instrument
  • Ukrainian: осцилограф (oscylohraf) — electronic measuring instrument
  • Vietnamese: dao động ký — electronic measuring instrument
  • Vietnamese: máy hiện sóng — electronic measuring instrument
  • Welsh: osgilosgop — electronic measuring instrument