power pack


nounElectronics.
  1. a device for converting the voltage from a power line or battery to the various voltages required by the components of an electronic circuit.

Origin of power pack

1
First recorded in 1935–40

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How to use power pack in a sentence

  • He unhooked the cables and took the power pack from his back.

    Islands of Space | John W Campbell
  • Arcot cocked an eye at the power pack, visualizing the circuits.

    Islands of Space | John W Campbell
  • They came to find him looking meditatively at the power pack from one of the flying suits he had designed.

    Islands of Space | John W Campbell
  • One was a very flat cone, much like a coolie-hat and hardly larger, with a sort of power-pack of coils and batteries attached.

    Operation: Outer Space | William Fitzgerald Jenkins
  • I'm thinking—suppose I made the field with a strobe-light power-pack—or maybe a spot-welding unit.

    Operation: Outer Space | William Fitzgerald Jenkins

British Dictionary definitions for power pack

power pack

noun
  1. a device for converting the current from a supply into direct or alternating current at the voltage required by a particular electrical or electronic device

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