Weird names for things. What you got?

[Multicore]

It might be fun to collect some terms we use that are literally incorrect but we know what you mean, like

• Linear power supply for a power supply that's designed around a bridge rectifier. Not very linear.
• Multi-channel to mean more than two channels, as if stereo wasn't also multi-channel.

What else have you got?

 

[solderdude]

Linear power supply for a power supply that's designed around a bridge rectifier. Not very linear.

A linear power supply (not regulated) has a DC output voltage that is (not quite due to diode forward voltage) linear to the input voltage.
Regulated 'linear' power supplies (which is what you probably mean) are regulated above a certain input voltage but folks tend to call everything that is non SMPS 'linear'.

 

[BlackTalon]

Hi-fi. It's used for many decidedly low-fi $$$ 'audiophile grade' pieces of equipment, as testing often shows.

 

[Chrispy]

Hi-fi. It's used for many decidedly low-fi $$$ 'audiophile grade' pieces of equipment, as testing often shows.

What is lo-fi particularly, tho? (or "mid-fi" for that matter)

Outside of audio, I do tend to call movies "films" even if they're not.

 

[Killingbeans]

Frequency response. People (including myself) really mean 'amplitude response' most of the time when they say 'frequency response'.

 

[Multicore]

Frequency response. People (including myself) really mean 'amplitude response' most of the time when they say 'frequency response'.

Yes, I like that. In that sense a frequency response would literally be a distortion, i.,e. put 1 kHz sine tone in and get a variety of different frequencies in the response.

 

[Multicore]

A linear power supply (not regulated) has a DC output voltage that is (not quite due to diode forward voltage) linear to the input voltage.
Regulated 'linear' power supplies (which is what you probably mean) are regulated above a certain input voltage but folks tend to call everything that is non SMPS 'linear'.

Now I learn even more. The regulation is the non-linearity that makes the name literally incorrect.

 

[egellings]

A linear power supply (not regulated) has a DC output voltage that is (not quite due to diode forward voltage) linear to the input voltage.
Regulated 'linear' power supplies (which is what you probably mean) are regulated above a certain input voltage but folks tend to call everything that is non SMPS 'linear'.

Agree; it's just a nomenclature thing to distinguish between switch-mode and non-switch-mode supply types.