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
Electricity.
- : a generator of alternating current.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as ingenerator
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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.
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