Coil - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: coilChoking coil
A coil of small resistance and large inductance used in an alternating current circuit to impede or throttle the current or to change its phase called also reactance coil or reactor these terms being now preferred in engineering usage...
Coil
To wind cylindrically or spirally as to coil a rope when not in use the snake coiled itself before springing...
coiled
curled or wound especially in concentric rings or spirals as a coiled snake ready to strike the rope lay coiled on the deck Opposite of uncoiled...
Inductance coil
A choking coil...
Reactance coil
A choking coil...
Ruhmkorffs coil
See Induction coil under Induction...
Fake
One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser as it lies in a coil a single turn or coil...
Master vibrator
In an internal combustion engine with two or more cylinders an induction coil and vibrator placed in the circuit between the battery or magneto and the coils for the different cylinders which are used without vibrators of their own...
Series winding
A winding in which the armature coil and the field magnet coil are in series with the external circuits opposed to shunt winding...
Ampere
Ampere, means a unit of electric current and is the unvarying electric current which when passed through a solution of nitrate of silver in water, in accordance with the specification set out in Annexure I, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 of a gramme per second; the aforesaid unit is equivalent to the current which, in passing through the suspended coil of wire forming part of the instrument marked 'Government of India Ampere Standard Verified' when the suspended coil is in its sighted position, exerts a force which is exactly balanced by the force exerted by gravity in Calcutta on the counter balancing iridio-platinum weight of the said instrument. [Indian Electricity Rules, 1956, s. 2 (1) (c)]...
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