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inductor
[ in-duhk-ter ]
noun
- Also called inductance. Electricity. a coil used to introduce inductance into an electric circuit.
- a person who inducts, as into office.
inductor
/ ɪnˈdʌktə /
noun
- a person or thing that inducts
- a component, such as a coil, in an electrical circuit the main function of which is to produce inductance
inductor
/ ĭn-dŭk′tər /
- An electrical component or circuit, especially an induction coil, that introduces inductance into a circuit.
- A substance that causes an induced reaction. Unlike a catalyst, an inductor is irreversibly transformed in the reaction.
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Example Sentences
My companion and inductor was a certain ‘Uncle Abe,’ a gentleman very much after the style and complexion of our own Jake here.
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My thermic inductor transformers melted last week and I'm all in the air.
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Such alternators have stationary armatures in all cases and are of either the revolving magnet or inductor type.
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And suppose a stray inductor beam just happened to graze the Waern living room.
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The screen will ground out a Nerne-Herzfeld couple, and no bunch of fugitives is going to be lugging an inductor around with them.
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