Tesla coil
an air-core transformer used to produce high voltages of high-frequency alternating currents.
Origin of Tesla coil
1- Also called Tesla transformer.
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How to use Tesla coil in a sentence
In some cases the two circuits of the Tesla coil, the primary and secondary, are sections of one single coil.
One electrode was safely grounded, the other connected to a Tesla coil.
Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X | Victor AppletonHe built himself a Tesla coil, and a table with hidden AC electromagnets in it that would make a metal plate float in the air.
By Proxy | Gordon Randall Garrett
British Dictionary definitions for tesla coil
a step-up transformer with an air core, used for producing high voltages at high frequencies. The secondary circuit is tuned to resonate with the primary winding
Origin of tesla coil
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for tesla coil
An electrical device that generates extremely high voltages, usually for the purpose of creating dramatic electric arcs and lightning effects or for producing x-rays. Tesla coils use step-up transformers to boost the voltage of a power supply and build up large charges in a capacitor. A spark gap periodically shorts out the capacitor, releasing its charge in huge current flows, that generate extremely high voltages (up to ten million volts) through an open-air transformer.
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