inductor
Also called inductance. Electricity. a coil used to introduce inductance into an electric circuit.
a person who inducts, as into office.
Origin of inductor
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How to use inductor in a sentence
To keep all the paper inductors on one side of the machine to a like excitement, I connected them together by a metal wire.
Paper inductors are fixed upon the back of it, while opposite the inductors, and in front of the revolving plate, are combs.
Upon the fixed plate are two inductors, while on the revolving plate are six circular carriers.
Two brushes receive the first portions of the induced charges from the carriers, which portions are conveyed to the inductors.
To provide a field of magnetic lines or lines of force to be cut by the armature inductors as they revolve in the field.
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British Dictionary definitions for inductor
/ (ɪnˈdʌktə) /
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
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Scientific definitions for 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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