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magnetos

  • plural
    of magneto.
    magneto
    noun
    a small electric generator with an armature that rotates in a magnetic field provided by permanent magnets, as a generator supplying ignition current for certain types of internal combustion engines or a hand-operated generator for telephone signaling.

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Shortly the Government ordered all of its warplanes immobilized, their magnetos removed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Son Jay was the "mechanician" during races, stopped leaks at full speed, at race's end took the magnetos home and dried them in the oven.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stromberg-Carlson had a $48,985 educational order for field-telephone magnetos, but was more interested in its booming domestic business of frequency-modulation radio sets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Without planeloads of mica, quartz crystals, tantalate, columbite, industrial diamonds and rare drugs, the production lines of magnetos, electrical apparatus, stainless steel and medicines would have stopped dead.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the eighteen-cylinder overhead valve Sunbeam-Coatalen aircraft engine of 475 brake horse-power, there are no fewer than half a dozen magnetos.

From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?

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