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5-4-070
A device, capable of changing from one to the next of a sequence of distinguishable states upon receipt of an input signal.
Note: One specific type is a circuit that produces one output pulse each time it receives some predetermined number of input pulses.
Reference: I.E.E.E. (extract)
Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)