noun
- Plural of bistable; electronic or mechanical devices or circuits that can exist in either of two stable states.
Usage: technical; electronics
Examples
- The engineer designed bistables to store binary data in the memory circuit.
- Bistables are fundamental building blocks in digital electronics and computer design.
- The system uses several bistables to maintain the on-off states of different switches.
- In logic circuits, bistables can toggle between high and low voltage levels.
- Modern processors contain millions of bistables that form the basis of their computational power.