interposer

From interpose +‎ -er.

interposer (plural interposers)

1. One who interposes.
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     Since I have your good leave to go away,
     I will make haste: but, till I come again,
     No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay,
     No rest be interposer 'twixt us twain.

   • c. 1619–1623, John Ford, “The Lawes of Candy”, in Comedies and Tragedies , London: Humphrey Robinson, , and for Humphrey Moseley , published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 52, column 1:

     But if now / You ſhould (as cruell fathers do) proclame / Your right, and Tyrant like uſurp the glory / Of my peculiar honours, not deriv'd / From ſucceſſary, but purchas'd with my bloud, / Then I muſt ſtand firſt Champion for my ſelfe, / Againſt all interpoſers.

2. (electronics) An electrical interface between one connection or socket and another, used to spread a connection to a wider pitch or to reroute it.
   • 1984, Robotics Technology Abstracts - Volume 3, page 280:

     The drillable centre-line determining device disclosed in this patent takes the form of an interposer which has on its underside a projecting location pin perpendicular to its upper surface which acts as a planarisation platform.

   • 2016, Brajesh Kumar Kaushik, Vobulapuram Ramesh Kumar, Manoj Kumar Majumder, Arsalan Alam, Through Silicon Vias: Materials, Models, Design, and Performance, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 7:

     As the name suggests, an interposer is placed in between the packaging substrate and dies to provide electrical interface routing. The objective of an interposer is to electrically reroute a terminal to different dies or to extend a connection to broader areas via wider pitch.

• interposer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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From inter- +‎ poser, or an amalgamation between Latin interposuī and pauso.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.ze/

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interposer

1. (transitive) to interpose

• “interposer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.