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SPECIFIC TYPE OF ATTENUATOR CIRCUIT
PI pad; PI-pad; Pi pad; Pi-pad; Π-pad; Box attenuator; O pad; O-pad
  • '''Figure 1.''' Schematic circuit of a Π-pad attenuator.
  • '''Figure 3.''' A Π-pad attenuator formed from two symmetrical L sections. Because of the symmetry, ''R''<sub>1</sub> = ''R''<sub>3</sub> in this case.
  • '''Figure 2.''' A general L-section circuit with shunt admittance ''Y'' and series impedance ''Z''.

pad out      
If you pad out a piece of writing or a speech with unnecessary words or pieces of information, you include them in it to make it longer and hide the fact that you have not got very much to say.
The reviewer padded out his review with a lengthy biography of the author...
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron) with n, also V n P, V n P with n
D-pad         
  • Famicom]] controller. The D-pad (cross shape on left) first came to prominence on the controller for the Famicom.
  • [[Sega Master System]] D-pad providing eight-directional buttons
FLAT, USUALLY THUMB-OPERATED DIRECTIONAL CONTROL ON MOST MODERN VIDEO GAME CONTROLLERS AND REMOTE CONTROLLERS
Control pad; D-Pad; Directional pad; Digital Pad; Dpad; D pad; D-pads; Digital pad
A D-pad (short for directional pad or digital pad; officially referred to by Nintendo as a +Control Pad) is a flat, usually thumb-operated, often digital, four-way directional control with one button on each point, found on nearly all modern video game console gamepads, game controllers, on the remote control units of some television and DVD players, and smart phones. Like early video game joysticks, the vast majority of D-pads are digital; in other words, only the directions provided on the D-pad buttons can be used, with no intermediate values.
Thermally conductive pad         
THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIAL IN THE FORM OF A SOFT PAD, USED IN COMPUTING
Thermal pad (computing)
In computing and electronics, thermal pads (also called thermally conductive pad or thermal interface pad) are pre-formed rectangles of solid material (often paraffin wax or silicone based) commonly found on the underside of heatsinks to aid the conduction of heat away from the component being cooled (such as a CPU or another chip) and into the heatsink (usually made from aluminium or copper). Thermal pads and thermal compound are used to fill air gaps caused by imperfectly flat or smooth surfaces which should be in thermal contact;AMD - Thermal Interface Material Comparison: Thermal Pads vs.

Wikipedia

Π pad

The Π pad (pi pad) is a specific type of attenuator circuit in electronics whereby the topology of the circuit is formed in the shape of the Greek capital letter pi (Π).

Attenuators are used in electronics to reduce the level of a signal. They are also referred to as pads due to their effect of padding down a signal by analogy with acoustics. Attenuators have a flat frequency response attenuating all frequencies equally in the band they are intended to operate. The attenuator has the opposite task of an amplifier. The topology of an attenuator circuit will usually follow one of the simple filter sections. However, there is no need for more complex circuitry, as there is with filters, due to the simplicity of the frequency response required.

Circuits are required to be balanced or unbalanced depending on the geometry of the transmission lines they are to be used with. For radio frequency applications, the format is often unbalanced, such as coaxial. For audio and telecommunications, balanced circuits are usually required, such as with the twisted pair format. The Π pad is intrinsically an unbalanced circuit. However, it can be converted to a balanced circuit by placing half the series resistance in the return path. Such a circuit is called a box section because the circuit is formed in the shape of a box.

Examples of use of pad out
1. Town halls are using the money to pad out council tax receipts or to maintain services they would otherwise cut, the report added.
2. I started using clean washing to pad out the wounds." She said Mrs Horgan lived for about 45 minutes while her sister never lost consciousness as she waited for help.