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oscillators could generate various types of waveforms, i.e., sinusoidal, triangular, etc. Oscillators generating non-analog waveform(sinusoidal, triangular are examples of analog waveforms) ,i.e., square or rectangular waveforms are called multivibrators.

Classically, "multivibrator" term was proposed by the Dutch physicist van der Pol, refers to the multiplicity of harmonics in the spectrum of generated oscillations (in this sense a generator of sinusoidal oscillations could be called a monovibrator).

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