compound-wound

American  

[kom-pound-wound] / ˈkɒm paʊndˈwaʊnd /

adjective

Electricity.

1. noting an electric device in which part of the field circuit is in parallel with the armature circuit and part is in series with it.

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Other Word Forms

• compound winding
  noun

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compound-wound

Edison was the first to use in practical work the compound-wound dynamo, and this was done in connection with his electric railway.

From The Story of Great Inventions by Elmer Ellsworth Burns

Sometimes they are compound-wound, but compounding is less important in telephone generators than in some other uses.

From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Samuel McMeen

But the bullet had been unable to elude the compound-wound magnets, each of which now had quite four times the designed voltage impressed upon its coils.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 by Various

The dynamo is a modern four-pole machine, compound-wound, with a rated output of 46 amperes, at 125 volts—in other words a dynamo of 5.75 kilowatts capacity, or 7.7 electrical horsepower.

From Electricity for the farm Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water wheel or farm engine by Frederick Irving Anderson

This is what happens in the Edison compound-wound dynamo.

From The Story of Great Inventions by Elmer Ellsworth Burns