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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An electrostatic generator used chiefly to demonstrate how static electricity is generated at high voltages, consisting of oppositely rotating mica or glass disks with metal carriers on which charges are produced by induction.
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- noun electrical device that produces a high voltage by building up a charge of static electricity
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After James Wimshurst, (1832–1903), British engineer.]
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