transductor

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noun

A kind of magnetic amplifier used in power systems for compensating reactive power.

OriginLatin trānsductus →
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Meanings

nountransductor (plural transductors)

plural transductors

  1. A kind of magnetic amplifier used in power systems for compensating reactive power.

    The essential feature is that two adjacent transformer tappings are connected to the load simultaneously, each connection having a self-excited transductor in series; [...].

    1962 June, “Talking of Trains: Notable new locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 373

Origin

  1. Latintrānsductus
  2. Englishtransductor

From Latin trānsductus + -or (“electrical component”).

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APA

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