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compound-wound

/kom-pound-wound/US // ˈkɒm paʊndˈwaʊnd //

复绕式,复绕型,复绕式的,复卷

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Electricity.

    • : noting an electric device in which part of the field circuit is in parallel with the armature circuit and part is in series with it.

Examples

  • Saved from the public gallows, Weeks was virtually exiled from the city, and wound up in Mississippi, where he raised a family.

  • But those strands of his identity are all wound around the conspiracy that led him back to Gambia for the first time in 23 years.

  • He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound.

  • As the interview wound down, Bentivolio reflected on what may have motivated him to dress as Santa.

  • But others say a still-unidentified man likely fired the round that caused a lethal head wound.

  • He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.

  • The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird's-nest.

  • Ripperda's equipage wound down a long and twisting defile between two precipitous rocks.

  • They held the compound against repeated assaults, and lost several men in hand-to-hand fighting.

  • Passing a bungalow that was blazing furiously, he saw in the compound the corpses of two women.