power factor
Britishnoun
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Band convergence is considered a good approach for improving thermoelectric materials because it increases the thermoelectric power factor, which is related to the actual output power of the thermoelectric module.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2024
The combination of extremely high electrical conductivity and simultaneously a high Seebeck coefficient leads to record thermoelectric power factor values in nickel-gold alloys, which exceed those of conventional semiconductors by far.
From Science Daily • Sep. 18, 2023
Rewrite the radicand as a product using the largest perfect fifth power factor.
From Textbooks • Sep. 23, 2020
Explain why it would be better to improve the power factor as a method of improving the motor’s output, rather than to increase the voltage input.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Serbia “must be eliminated as a power factor in the Balkans,” warned Count Leopold von Berchtold, the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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