meal, repast(noun) the food served and eaten at one time. meal(noun) any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times. meal(noun) coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse.
Encoders turn mechanical motion into an electrical signal that is used by the control system to monitor specific parameters of the application and make adjustments if necessary to maintain the machine operating as desired.
The central processing unit of a computer contains an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) to perform operations. Transistors are used to create logic gates, including NOT, OR, AND, and XOR. Combinations of logic gates make it possible to perform arithmetic operations.