Digital terminology is indeed a bit misleading. A multivibrator can be stable, astable, or monostable (a one-shot).My "thing" was radio, and never studied much about multivibrators.
So, without having really studied multivibrators, I was somewhat taken aback the other day from coming to an understanding that a S R latch is a form of multivibrator.
I believe a regular motor starter circuit, where pressing the start button latches power to the motor and the stop button resets to the initial condition is a S R latch circuit.
That would make this motor circuit a multivibrator circuit.
Because I read "Any digital circuit employing feedback is called a multivibrator." I always assumed the word "multivibrator", referred to a circuit that was a kind of oscillator. Seems it does not have to be.
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