air-core

American

[air-kawr, -kohr] / ˈɛərˌkɔr, -ˌkoʊr /

adjective

Electricity.

having a nonmagnetic core, as one of fiber or plastic, encircled by a coil air-corecoil, or containing one or more such coils.

air-core transformer.

Etymology

Origin of air-core

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

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In this latter figure you will notice a small air-core coil, LR, between the oscillator and the modulator tube.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John

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