routiner

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A jazz musician who plays by ear (i.e. not using sheet music, but rather following along…

   A jazz musician who plays by ear (i.e. not using sheet music, but rather following along with the band and memorizing music when needed).

   • Tom Albert, present during this interview, stated that Vincent was at first a routiner (i.e., playing by rote or ear) [...]
   • It seemed to the uptown routiners that aurality had its own set of advantages, and in the absence of strong evidence to the contrary it is hard to argue against them.
2. 2

   A device used to automatically activate and cycle the settings of electronic equipment…

   A device used to automatically activate and cycle the settings of electronic equipment for testing purposes.

   • In preparing for the test, it is only necessary to connect the routiner to a test distributor by operating a key.
   • Two interface lines are needed for the diagnostic routiner to communicate with the CU.
   • We usually let the routiner run overnight, when the exchange switches were lightly used, and thus mostly free for testing.

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