compound-wound

[kom-pound-wound]

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.

Other Word Forms

• compound winding noun

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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