Transformer
[træns'fɔːmə;trɑːns-;-nz-] or [træns'fɔrmɚ]
Definition
(noun.) an electrical device by which alternating current of one voltage is changed to another voltage.
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Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. (Elec.), an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage.
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Examples
- A change in the character of the current generated by the dynamo is made by what is known as the transformer, in which the principle of the induction coil is made available. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Various electrical machines may be used for this purpose, the Holtz, or the Wimshurst glass plate machine, the Ruhmkorff, or induction coil, or even the high frequency transformer. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- For this purpose the alternating current seems eminently adapted, as transformers only are needed to raise the line to high transmission voltage and to lower it again for use. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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