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Word Meanings - STEP-DOWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Transforming or converting a current of high potential or pressure into one of low pressure; as, a step-down transformer.

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  • CONVERTIBILITY
    The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
  • CONVERTIBLY
    In a convertible manner.
  • POTENTIAL
    1. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential. "And hath in his effect a voice potential." Shak. 2. Existing in possibility, not in actuality. "A potential hero." Carlyle. Potential existence means merely
  • TRANSFORMATION
    The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. Specifically: --
  • POTENTIALITY
    The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.
  • PRESSURE WIRES
    Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points.
  • POTENTIALLY
    1. With power; potently. 2. In a potential manner; possibly, not positively. The duration of human souls is only potentially infinite. Bentley.
  • TRANSFORMISM
    The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis. Huxley.
  • CONVERTIBLE
    1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
  • CONVERTEND
    Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. .
  • PRESSURE
    The action of a force against some obstacle or opposing force; a force in the nature of a thrust, distributed over a surface, often estimated with reference to the upon a unit's area. Atmospheric pressure, Center of pressure, etc. See
  • TRANSFORMER
    One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. , an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage.
  • CONVERTIBLENESS
    The state of being convertible; convertibility.
  • CONVERTER
    A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal. (more info) 1. One who converts; one who makes converts.
  • CURRENTNESS
    1. The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception. 2. Easiness of pronunciation; fluency. When currentness with staidness, how can the language . . . sound other than most full of sweetness Camden.
  • CURRENT
    of curre, corre, F. courre, courir, to run, from L. currere; perh. 1. Running or moving rapidly. Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord. Gower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.
  • TRANSFORMABLE
    Capable of being transformed or changed.
  • CONVERT
    To change into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second. 8. To turn into another language; to translate. Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly converted. B. Jonson. Converted guns, cast-iron guns
  • TRANSFORM
    To change, as an algebraic expression or geometrical figure, into another from without altering its value. (more info) 1. To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into
  • CURRENTLY
    In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currently believed.
  • DIRECT CURRENT
    A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
  • EQUIPOTENTIAL
    Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
  • JAPAN CURRENT
    A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion
  • PHASING CURRENT
    The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.
  • ALTERNATING CURRENT
    A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
  • INCONVERTED
    Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.
  • PERCURRENT
    Running through the entire length.
  • RECONVERTIBLE
    Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
  • UNCONVERTED
    1. Not converted or exchanged. 2. Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another. Specifically: -- Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker. Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter.
  • PHASE CONVERTER
    A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.
  • INCONVERTIBLE
    Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.
  • SNEAK CURRENT
    A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.
  • OSCILLATING CURRENT
    A current alternating in direction.
  • NONRECURRENT
    Not recurring.
  • THERMOCURRENT
    A current, as of electricity, developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat.

 

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