balun

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See also: bälun and bàlùn

English

Two twisted pair-to-coaxial baluns
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Etymology

Clipping of balancedunbalanced. Compare modem.

Noun

balun (plural baluns)

  1. An electronic device for connecting a balanced transmission line to an unbalanced one.
    • 2001, Rick Sturdivant, Balun Design for Wireless: Mixers, Amplifiers and Antennas, in Practical Filters and Couplers, Noble Publishing Corporation, page 25,
      Baluns find wide use in mixer, antenna and balanced amplifier circuits. Yet balun design is still regarded as if it were black magic by many engineers partly due to the fact that practical design information on baluns can be difficult to find.
    • 2005, Thomas A. Milligan, Modern Antenna Design, 2nd edition, Wiley, page 253:
      The Roberts balun [23] design adds an open-circuited stub λ/4 long inside the dummy coax of the folded balun.
    • 2009, Jon B. Hagen, Radio-Frequency Electronics: Circuits and Applications, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 177:
      In (e) a balun at the end of the coaxial feedline provides equal and opposite voltages to each side of the dipole and eliminates any current from the outside of the feedline.

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Epigraphic Mayan

Alternative forms

Numeral

balun

  1. nine

Kavalan

Noun

balun

  1. belt; girdle

Portuguese

Noun

balun m (plural baluns)

  1. balun (device that connects an unbalanced transmission to a balanced one)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

Noun

balun m (Cyrillic spelling балун)

  1. (Chakavian, Split) ball

Tarifit

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish balón (ball).

Noun

balun m (Tifinagh spelling ⴱⴰⵍⵓⵏ)

  1. ball
    Synonym: tašurt