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Commonly used terms in the Electrical industry.
full-wave rectifier
a device that passes positive polarity portions of a signal and reverses negative polarity portions of an AC signal. Ideally, for a sinusoidal input v
i
(t) = Vm cos(ωt), the output of an ideal full-wave rectifier is v
o
(t) = |V
m
cos(ωt)|.