half-wave rectifier


nounElectronics.
  1. a rectifier that changes only one half of a cycle of alternating current into a pulsating, direct current.

Origin of half-wave rectifier

1
First recorded in 1925–30

Other words from half-wave rectifier

  • half-wave rectification, noun

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