Word Meanings - INDUCTANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Capacity for induction; the coefficient of self-induction. The unit of inductance is the henry.

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• INDUCTANCE
  Capacity for induction; the coefficient of self-induction. The unit of inductance is the henry.
• INDUCTION
  The act or process of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal; also, the result or inference so reached. Induction is an inference drawn from all the particulars. Sir W. Hamilton.
• INDUCTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or proceeding by, induction; inductive.
• INDUCTION 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
• INDUCTION MOTOR
  A type of alternating-current motor comprising two wound members, one stationary, called the stator, and the other rotating, called the rotor, these two members corresponding to a certain extent to the field and armature of a direct-current motor.
• HENRY
  The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampère a second.
• CAPACITY
  Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency. Capacity for heat, the power of absorbing
• INDUCTANCE COIL
  A choking coil.
• COEFFICIENT
  Coöperating; acting together to produce an effect. Co`ef*fi"cient*ly, adv.
• HEATHENRY
  1. The state, quality, or character of the heathen. Your heathenry and your laziness. C. Kingsley. 2. Heathendom; heathen nations.
• INCAPACITY
  Want of legal ability or competency to do, give, transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the inacapacity of minors to make binding contracts, etc. Syn. -- Inability; incapability; incompetency; unfitness; disqualification;
• 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.
• SUPERINDUCTION
  The act of superinducing, or the state of being superinduced. South.