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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
These two elements control the flow of current in the circuit, and the inductor is a Josephson Junction, which is an aluminum oxide nanoscale junction.
The layout of the system looks like an inductor in parallel with a capacitor.
My companion and inductor was a certain ‘Uncle Abe,’ a gentleman very much after the style and complexion of our own Jake here.
My thermic inductor transformers melted last week and I'm all in the air.
Such alternators have stationary armatures in all cases and are of either the revolving magnet or inductor type.
And suppose a stray inductor beam just happened to graze the Waern living room.
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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