loading coil

American  

noun

Electricity.

1. an inductance coil used to improve the characteristics of a transmission line.

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loading coil British  

noun

1. an inductance coil inserted at regular intervals and in series with the conductors of a transmission line in order to improve its characteristics

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Etymology

Origin of loading coil

First recorded in 1900–05

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Example Sentences

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loading coil

The Pupin and Campbell "loading coil," and the deForest "audion," are both extinct technology today, but in 1913 they gave Vail's company the best LONG-DISTANCE lines ever built.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling

That’s why your friends add a loading coil when they 121want to tune for the long wave-length stations, that is, those with a low frequency.

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

Jack connected a loading coil with deft fingers.

From The End of Time by Wallace West

For quite a range of wave-lengths we may use the same loading coil and tune the antenna circuit entirely by this series condenser.

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

Usually, therefore, one connects into his antenna circuit both a condenser and a loading coil.

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

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