meal, repast(noun) the food served and eaten at one time. meal(noun) any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times. meal(noun) coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse.
Encoders turn mechanical motion into an electrical signal that is used by the control system to monitor specific parameters of the application and make adjustments if necessary to maintain the machine operating as desired.
Software for encoding audio, video, images, or text into standardized formats: 1  A compressor encodes data (e.g., audio/video/images) into a smaller form (see codec) 2  An audio encoder converts analog audio to digital audio signals. 3  A video encoder converts analog video to digital video signals.