Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of rewind
nounrewinding (plural rewindings)
plural rewindings
- The act or process by which something is rewound.
- A set of replacement coils on an electric motor or other device that uses wound wires to generate a magnetic field.
The Crookes tube has accordingly been modified until it is no longer a new-fangled burning glass: motors, coils, rewindings, regulators and transformers have been interposed between the street current and the tube[…]
1902, Dietetic and hygienic gazette, volume 18, page 477
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