What is "converter"

Usage examples of "converter".

Rostow, Mac, Bundy and Hot Stick were standing by with their weapons pointed at the congregation of Aguaruna as casually as it could be done without being rude, trying to provide comfort for Felix, who crouched next to the Stele, perspiring heavily over a soldering iron, a converter and a picnic cooler full of two dozen size-D batteries.

Orpheus, who sang so entrancingly that mortals forgot their punishments and followed him, and Amphion, who drew the stones into their places in the walls by his music, performed no more of a miracle than a lad who tips a Bessemer converter.

It was pump-fed through antihydrogen mass converters to make steam, each converter a porous bed of very high temperature refractory alloys that surrounded an annihilation chamber.

But finally he saw that the converter had two openings, one beyond the hydroponic gardens and the other within the engine room itself.

I had visited steelworks and the like during the manufacture of components of my own Time Machine, and earlier devices: I had watched molten iron run from the blast-furnaces into Bessemer converters, there to be oxidized and mixed with spiegel and carbon.

As he said the last words my converter rose, and went to the window to dry his tears, I felt deeply moved, anal full of admiration for the virtue of De la Haye and of his pupil, who, to save his soul, had placed himself under the hard necessity of accepting alms.

There she picked out a collapsible boat, a converter and a jetpack, and several tethers designed for mountain climbing.

I charged out to the earth station, climbed the ladder, and whanged on the converter forty, fifty, sixty times, then lost count and whanged some more.

Finally, I ran out to the dish and whanged the block converter with the crescent wrench.

I had recovered all my usual vigour, and I accompanied my converter to church every day, never missing a sermon.

For a supply of squirrel food, Arie's already improved the mass converter twice.

There, in chambers off limits to personnel, lay sidereal converters, seemingly inert colossi suspended in vacuum, like the legendary tomb of Mohammed, on invisible magnetic cushions.

Without waiting to investigate the nature, appearance, or structure of the precious mass, Nerado ordered power into the converters and drove an enormous softening field of force upon the object — a force of such a nature that it would condense the metallic iron into an allotropic modification of much smaller bulk.

Something brand new, and yet he described their converters and projectors so minutely that Fred was able to work out the underlying theory in three days, and to tie it in with our own super-ship.

Far below, in number ten converter room, massive switches drove home and the enormous mass of the vessel quivered under the terrific reaction of the newly-calculated, semi-material beam of energy that was hurled out, backed by the mightiest of all the mighty converters and generators of Triplanetary's superdreadnaught.