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

Example Sentences

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

From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth

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 McMeen, Samuel

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 Burns, Elmer Ellsworth

General Electric, 220-volt, compound-wound, direct-current motors running at 655 rev. per min.

From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158 by Brace, James H.

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 Anderson, Frederick Irving