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surface mount

Adjective

Meaning

surface mount (not comparable)

Alternative form of surface-mount

(electronics) Of electronic components, able to be soldered on top of printed circuit boards.
surface-mount capacitor

(electronics) Pertaining or relating to the technology of soldering electronic components on top of printed circuit boards.
surface-mount assembly

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

surface-mount

Examples

DIP packages have been mostly displaced by surface-mount package types, which avoid the expense of drilling holes in a printed circuit board and which allow higher density of interconnections. Source: Internet

Hence, a particular transistor may be described as silicon, surface-mount, BJT, n–p–n, low-power, high-frequency switch. Source: Internet

At the other extreme, some surface-mount microwave transistors are as small as grains of sand. Source: Internet

Modern high-power LEDs such as those used for lighting and backlighting are generally found in surface-mount technology (SMT) packages (not shown). Source: Internet

Standard-tolerance surface-mount technology (SMT) resistors are marked with a three-digit code, in which the first two digits are the first two significant digits of the value and the third digit is the power of ten (the number of zeroes). Source: Internet

By the end of the 20th century, surface-mount packages allowed further reduction in the size and weight of systems. Source: Internet

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