synchronous converter

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noun Electricity.

a synchronous machine for converting alternating current to direct current, or vice versa, in which the armature winding is connected to collector rings and to a commutator.

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Also called rotary, rotary converter.

Words nearby synchronous converter

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How to use synchronous converter in a sentence

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None of the reforms passed in the wake of the financial crisis create any breakers against synchronous global financial panic.
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There are no real, long-term safe havens that are immune to synchronous shocks.
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They occur, however, either in 'synchronous' or in 'successive' order.
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This corresponds to synchronous and successive associations.
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With the converter in operation, the first step in the cycle was the evacuation of the ducts to a near-perfect vacuum.
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He boosted me into the chamber of the converter and pointed out an opening near the top, about twelve by twenty-four inches.
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Yet synchronous with this the man of ideas and ideals that he kept to himself however; that he divulged to no one.
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British Dictionary definitions for synchronous converter

synchronous converter

noun

a synchronous machine that converts alternating current to direct current, or vice versa

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