• jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    Ok let me rephrase for pedantic people, adjectives with trans prefix have a correspondent cis adjective.

    And an electrical cisformer would be something that would keep energy inside the same circuit at roughly the same voltage, so basically a wire. Feel free to use the term if you want to oversell something.

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      6 months ago

      Cisformers
      They’re what meets the eyes
      Cisformers
      Bots not in disguise
      Robobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of
      The Obviouscons

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      I will start using “cisformer” in place of “wire” from now on, in a similar manner to how we at work sometimes refer to “power aspect negation cycle” for pulling the plug on something and reconnect it.

      Also, I guess a cisistor would be just a regular switch or potentiometer.