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Automotive current generator
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alternator
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Word definitions for alternator in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An alternator is an electrical generator that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy in the form of alternating current . For reasons of cost and simplicity, most alternators use a rotating magnetic field with a stationary armature . Occasionally, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an old term for an electric generator that produces alternating current (especially in automobiles)
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An electric generator which produces alternating current through mechanical means.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1878, agent noun in Latin form from alternate (v.).
Usage examples of alternator.
Could you say to the soldier, here, that I just want to get my alternator fixed, then shove off?
I can make a radiotelephone call to the builders on the way, and we can probably have a new alternator and spinnaker pole waiting for us in Panama.
Brewster had replaced the gearbox with high-power alternators and a turboshaft engine, mounted vertically.
Batteries would not hold charges, generators and alternators might truly give off energy, but it could not be controlled and dissipated just about as fast as it was made.
Without the engine alternators, the radar drew power from its battery-operated motor generator, which emitted a high-pitched whine through the boat's aluminum hull, a sound that could be heard for some distance underwater.
The floor, work benches, and all available countertops were littered with a jumble of tools and equipment, parts, manuals, blackened spark plugs, cracked cylinder heads, valves, fan belts, drive shafts, alternators, and exhaust manifolds.
In front of him on his alternator was a series of angiographic studies.
Ray-Lube, spare fan belt, alternator, and three gallons of gasoline.
Gomez got the battery, electronic ignition box, cassette player, sheepskin, jack, lug wrenches, tire chains, half case of Ray-Lube, spare fan belt, alternator, and three gallons of gasoline.
Spare parts are packed in cardboard boxes and stacked on wooden shelves: starter motor, cooling pump, alternator, hydraulic hoses and fittings, v-belts, jumper wires, fuses, hose clamps, gasket material, nuts and bolts, sheet metal, silicone rubber, plywood, screw gun, duct tape, lube oil, hydraulic oil, transmission oil, and fuel filters.
Philips activated his alternator and X rays flashed by on the screen until he found Lisa Marino's angiogram study.
But that same day he had an emergency road service call and a repair bill for a new alternator.
Axle and bearing assemblies, brake system, starter motor, and alternator, all were probed and rejected.
Also a generator, voltage regulator and an alternator if you want the station to be mobile.