Induction Generator - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: induction generatorInduction generator
A machine built as an induction motor and driven above synchronous speed thus acting as an alternating current generator called also asynchronous generator Below synchronism the machine takes in electrical energy and acts as an induction motor at synchronism the power component of current becomes zero and changes sign so that above synchronism the machine driven for this purpose by mechanical power gives out electrical energy as a generator...
Induction
Induction [fr. inductio, Lat., a leading into], the giving a parson possession of his church.A clerk is not complete incumbent until induction, which is performed by a mandate from the bishop to the archdeacon, or if the church be exempt from arch diaconal jurisdiction, to the chancellor or commissary, or if it be a peculiar, to the dean or judge, who usually issues a precept to another clergyman to perform it for him.The person who inducts takes the hand of the clerk, and lays it on the ring, key, or latch of the church-door, or wall of the church, or delivers a clod, turf, or twig of the glebe, and gives corporal possession of the church, saying:--By virtue of this mandate I induct you into the real, actual, and corporal possession of the church of [Stow], with all rights, profits, and appurtenances thereto belonging.'Induction is the investiture of the temporal part of the benefice or the corporal seisin, as institution (see INSTITUTION), which may take place anywhere, whereas induc...
Inductance
Capacity for induction the coefficient of self induction...
Inducteous
Rendered electro polar by induction or brought into the opposite electrical state by the influence of inductive bodies...
Inductional
Pertaining to or proceeding by induction inductive...
Self induction
Induction in a circuit due to the action of one portion of a current upon an adjacent portion during periods of varying current strength The nature of the induction is such as to oppose the action which produces it...
generation-skipping transfer
generation-skipping transfer : a transfer of property or of an interest in property that is to a person of a generation more than one generation below that of the transferor and that can be characterized as a taxable termination, a taxable distribution, or a direct skip see also direct skip generation-skipping trust at trust, skip person, taxable distribution, taxable termination NOTE: A transfer from a grandparent to a grandchild qualifies as a generation-skipping transfer, as does a transfer of a life estate to a child with a remainder in the grandchild. Such transfers are subject to a generation-skipping transfer tax. ...
Generating station
Generating station, 'generating station' or 'station' means any station for generating electricity, including any building and plant with step-up transformer, switch-gear, switch yard, cables or other appurtenant equipment, if any, used for that purpose and the site thereof; a site intended to be used for a generating station, and any building used for housing the operating staff of a generating station, and where electricity is generated by water-power, includes pen stocks, head and tail works, main and regulating reservoirs, dams and other hydraulic works, but does not in any case include any sub-station. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(28)]...
generation-skipping transfer tax
generation-skipping transfer tax : a transfer tax on a generation-skipping transfer called also generation-skipping tax ...
Captive generating plant
Captive generating plant, means a power plant set up by any person to generate electricity primarily for his own use and includes a power plant set up by any co-operative society or association of persons for generating electricity primarily for use of members of such co-operative society or association. Electricity Act, 2003, s. 2(8). A.P. Gas Power Corporation v. A.P. Electricity Regulatory Commission, AIR 2006 AP 12....
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