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alternator

/awl-ter-ney-ter, al-/US // ˈɔl tərˌneɪ tər, ˈæl- //UK // (ˈɔːltəˌneɪtə) //

发电机,交流发电机,交流器,交流电

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Electricity.

    • : a generator of alternating current.

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Examples

  • The powerful alternator on the Wondership was, of course, worked by the same motor that drove the big propellers.

  • Bedded down upon solid rock there was a high-tension alternator capable of absorbing the entire output of the mighty turbine.

  • I'm going to run a penstock up those falls, and put in a turbine, driving a high-tension alternator.

  • The humming whir of the great alternator rose gradually into a scream like the outcry of some angry thing.

  • It might be the turbine alternator of the Ring running by its own inertia for some time after the discharge had ceased.