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n. A direct current electrical machine with two pairs of brushes. It can be used as an amplifier or rotary transformer.
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A metadyne is a direct current electrical machine with two pairs of brushes. It can be used as an amplifier or rotary transformer. It is similar to a third brush dynamo but has additional regulator or "variator" windings. It is also similar to an amplidyne except that the latter has a compensating winding which fully counteracts the effect of the flux produced by the load current. The technical description is "a cross-field direct current machine designed to utilize armature reaction". A metadyne can convert a constant- voltage input into a constant-current, variable-voltage output.
Metadyne may refer to:
- Metadyne, a type of rotary electrical machine
- A fictional pharmaceutical company in Blood Brothers (The Outer Limits)
Usage examples of "metadyne".
Two weeks ago he had been sitting at his desk in Metadyne doing a routine job.
Two futures lay spread out before him: One led back to Metadyne, the other beckoned onwards toward infinity.
Then, one day, he was offered a free-lance assignment by the chief R and D executive of Metadyne to help out on the mathematical interpretation of some of their experimental work.