The Iraq War: How We Spent $800 Billion (and Counting) Follow @sarah_childressMarch 18, 2013, 1:36 pm ET. The Iraq war cost twice as much as the war in Afghanistan, and more than 16 times as much as the Bush administration predicted.
emitter. 1  a person or thing that emits. 2  Electronics. an electrode on a transistor from which a flow of electrons or holes enters the region between the electrodes.
As the emitter current is the combination of the collector AND the base current combined, the load resistance in this type of transistor configuration also has both the collector current and the input current of the base flowing through it.