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View synonyms for alternator
alternator
[ awl-ter-ney-ter, al- ]
alternator
/ ˈɔːltəˌneɪtə /
noun
- an electrical machine that generates an alternating current
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Word History and Origins
Origin of alternator1
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Example Sentences
The powerful alternator on the Wondership was, of course, worked by the same motor that drove the big propellers.
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Bedded down upon solid rock there was a high-tension alternator capable of absorbing the entire output of the mighty turbine.
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I'm going to run a penstock up those falls, and put in a turbine, driving a high-tension alternator.
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The humming whir of the great alternator rose gradually into a scream like the outcry of some angry thing.
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It might be the turbine alternator of the Ring running by its own inertia for some time after the discharge had ceased.
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