Mixer may refer to:
Electronics
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DJ mixer
A DJ mixer is a type of audio mixing console used by disc jockeys (DJs) to control and manipulate multiple audio signals. Some DJs use the mixer to make seamless transitions from one song to another when they are playing records at a dance club. ...
, a type of audio mixing console used by disc jockeys
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Electronic mixer
An electronic mixer is a device that combines two or more electrical or electronic signals into one or two composite output signals. There are two basic circuits that both use the term ''mixer'', but they are very different types of circuits: ...
, electrical circuit for combining signal voltages
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Frequency mixer
In electronics, a mixer, or frequency mixer, is an electrical circuit that creates new frequencies from two signals applied to it. In its most common application, two signals are applied to a mixer, and it produces new signals at the sum and di ...
, electrical circuit that creates new frequencies from two signals applied to it
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Mixing console
A mixing console or mixing desk is an electronic device for Audio mixing (recorded music), mixing audio signals, used in sound recording and reproduction and sound reinforcement systems. Inputs to the console include microphones, signals fro ...
, an electronic device for combining sounds of different audio signals
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Mix engineer
A mixing engineer (or simply mix engineer) is responsible for combining ("mixing") different sonic elements of an auditory piece into a complete rendition (also known as "final mix" or "mixdown"), whether in music, film, or any other content of a ...
, person who combines elements of recorded music into a final version
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Mode scrambler
In telecommunications, a mode scrambler or mode mixer is a device for inducing mode coupling in an optical fiber, or a device that, itself, exhibits a uniform output intensity profile independent of the input mode volume or modal excitation condit ...
, known as a mode mixer, telecommunications device for inducing mode coupling in an optical fiber
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Sound card mixer, analog part of a sound card that routes and mixes sound signals
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Vision mixer
A vision mixer is a device used to select between different live video sources and, in some cases, compositing live video sources together to create visual effects.
In most of the world, both the equipment and its operator are called a visio ...
, an electronic device for combining video signals
Industrial and lab equipment
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Concrete mixer
A concrete mixer (also cement mixer) is a device that homogeneously combines cement, Construction aggregate, aggregate (e.g. sand or gravel), and water to form concrete. A typical concrete mixer uses a revolving drum to mix the components. For ...
, a machine which combines the ingredients of concrete, a.k.a. cement mixer
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Feed mixer, for mixing feed ingredients
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High-shear mixer
A high-shear mixer disperses, or transports, one phase or ingredient (liquid, solid, gas) into a main continuous phase (liquid), with which it would normally be immiscible. A rotor or impeller, together with a stationary component known as a stat ...
, a device that disperse, or transports one phase or ingredient (liquid, solid, gas) into a main continuous phase (liquid)
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High viscosity mixer
High viscosity mixers are mixers designed for mixing materials with laminar mixing processes because the ingredients have such high viscosities that a turbulent mixing phase cannot be obtained at all or cannot be obtained without a high amount ...
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Impinging mixer Impinging mixers combine and disperse resins within each other, and are often used in reaction injection molding (RIM). Mixing occurs as two high velocity streams collide in a mixing chamber. High velocity results in a turbulent rather than a la ...
, part of a reaction injection molding system
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Industrial mixer
In industrial process engineering, mixing is a unit operation that involves manipulation of a heterogeneous physical system with the intent to make it more homogeneous. Familiar examples include pumping of the water in a swimming pool to homogeni ...
, a machine for mixing the materials in industrial scale
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Static mixer
A static mixer is a device for the continuous mixing of fluid materials, without moving components. Normally the fluids to be mixed are liquid, but static mixers can also be used to mix gas streams, disperse gas into liquid or blend immiscible ...
, a device for mixing two fluid materials through a tube containing a series of baffles
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Submersible mixer
A submersible mixer is a mechanical device that is used to mix sludge tanks and other liquid volumes. Submersible mixers are often used in sewage treatment plants to keep solids in suspension in the various process tanks and/or sludge holding tanks ...
, a machine used for mixing liquids and slurries in tanks (e.g. wastewater, liquid manure, etc.)
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Vortex mixer
A vortex mixer, or vortexer, is a simple device used commonly in laboratories to mix small vials of liquid. It consists of an electric motor with the drive shaft oriented vertically and attached to a cupped rubber piece mounted slightly off-ce ...
, a laboratory device
Entertainment
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Mixer (service)
Mixer was an American video game live streaming platform. The service launched on January 5, 2016, as Beam, under the ownership of co-founders Matthew Salsamendi and James Boehm. The service placed an emphasis on interactivity, with low stream la ...
, a defunct interactive video game streaming platform by Microsoft
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Mixer dance {{Short description, Social event
A mixer dance, dance mixer or simply mixer is a kind of participation dance in a social dance setting that involves changing partners as an integral part. Mixing can be built into the dance choreography or can be s ...
, a kind of participation dance that involves changing partners
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Production sound mixer
A production sound mixer, location sound recordist, location sound engineer, or simply sound mixer is the member of a film crew or television crew responsible for recording all sound recording on set during the filmmaking or television production ...
, the head of a film production sound crew
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''Mixer'' (album), a 2012 album by Desario
* "The Mixer", a 1991 song by The Fall from ''
Shift-Work
Shift work is an employment practice designed to keep a service or production line 24/7 service, operational at all times. The practice typically sees the day divided into shifts, set periods of time during which different groups of workers ...
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* ''The Mixer'', a 1992 TV series, starring
Simon Williams
Other
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Mixer (appliance)
A mixer (also called a hand mixer or stand mixer depending on the type) is a kitchen device that uses a gear-driven mechanism to rotate a set of "beaters" in a bowl containing the food or liquids to be prepared by mixing them.
Mixers help aut ...
, kitchen appliance used to combine ingredients
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Mixer (engine)
In aviation, an exhaust mixer / flow mixer is a feature of many turbofan engines, where slower, colder bypass air is mixed with faster, hotter core exhaust gases, before exhausting to atmospheric pressure through a common (mixed flow) propelling ...
, a device for quieting an airplane engine
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Drink mixer
Drink mixers are the non-alcoholic ingredients in mixed drinks and cocktails. Mixers dilute the drink, lowering the alcohol by volume in the drink. They change, enhance, or add new flavors to a drink. They may make the drink sweeter, more sour ...
, non-alcoholic ingredients in mixed drinks and cocktails
* Mixer, an alternate name for a
singles event
A singles' event is an activity or program made available specifically to the romantically unattached, often with the underlying or explicit purpose of fostering dating or relationships among attendees.
A singles event with a cocktail party-typ ...
See also
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Mix (disambiguation)
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