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An electrical device by which alternating current of one voltage is changed to another voltage
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transformer
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A transformer is an electrical device that transfers electrical energy between two or more circuits through electromagnetic induction . Electromagnetic induction produces an electromotive force within a conductor which is exposed to time varying magnetic ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Something that transforms, changing its own or another thing's shape. 2 (context electrical engineering English) A static device that transfers electric energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling. Their main use is to transfer energy between ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an electrical device by which alternating current of one voltage is changed to another voltage
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Apparently crews were trying to repair a small outage affecting 1, 640 customers in the Mission when the transformer went out. ▪ But new designs, which do without costly transformers, have trimmed prices. ▪ Signal voltage gain ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transformer \Trans*form"er\, n. One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. (Elec.), an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage. (1990's) a toy consisting of a figure or representation of an object, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "one who or that which transforms," agent noun from transform (v.). Meaning "device to reduce electrical currents" is from 1882.
Usage examples of transformer.
Cautiously, Georgos taped plastic explosive to the three large transformers the substation housed.
The power substation would be out until the transformers could be replaced but Copernicus Control would be on the air as soon as they could get the next shift inside.
Everything came to a halt until Hiroshito discovered thermic induction, and we were able to elevate temperature almost indefinitely through a process similar to the induction of high electric potentials by means of transformers and the Ruhmkorff coil.
Thornton and the thermic transformer, and stepping to the wall closed a switch.
Sverdlov had simply installed a framework to support his refashioned accelerator rings, antimagnetic shielding circuits, and incidental wires, tubes, grids, capacitors, transformers.
Next I constructed a Tesla transformer, and delighted in the unearthly glow of the Geissler tubes in a high-voltage field.
He glanced down at the big 5,000 kva transformers in the pit beyond the safety rail.
Everything came to a halt until Hiroshito discovered thermic induction, and we were able to elevate temperature almost indefinitely through a process similar to the induction of high electric potentials by means of transformers and the Ruhmkorff coil.
Anyone who made trouble for King Trent ran the risk of being transformed to a toad or a stinkbug, for Trent was the great transformer.
The light moved over power lines, insulators and transformers, paused at one charge of plastic explosive, then followed the wires to the timing device.
The transformers and substations extended back into the rock, where cables ascended through a crack up to the overland wires.
Pyramids understood: wires, relays, generators, electron tubes, transistors, thermistors, spacistors, transformers and whatever depended utterly on them.
My deputy, Art Romeo, had a tipoff about a 123 big office building downtown where current transformers have been tampered with and the gas system, which beats the -vvhole building, has a massive illegal shunt.
Most of the units in use contained PBBs, polybrominated biphenyls, as a cooling element within the power transformer.
Lotsa relays and contactors and transformers have burned up because of the damn fire ants.