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- noun Plural form of
coil . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
coil .
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Examples
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Where this is the case, such coils are termed _impedance_, or _retardation_, or _choke coils_, since they are employed to impede or to retard or to choke back the flow of rapidly varying current.
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910
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They removed the heating coils from the life support system, the tanks from the water recycling system, and the compressor from the carbon dioxide scrubbers.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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They removed the heating coils from the life support system, the tanks from the water recycling system, and the compressor from the carbon dioxide scrubbers.
365 tomorrows » Collaboration : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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They removed the heating coils from the life support system, the tanks from the water recycling system, and the compressor from the carbon dioxide scrubbers.
365 tomorrows » Escape from Io : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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In raw meat, proteins molecules are wound up in coils, formed and held together by bonds.
What I've Just Read: A Darkness Forged in Fire ewillett 2008
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Another safety issue also related to gradient coils is the unwelcome level of electric field that naturally accompanies high levels of changing magnetic field.
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The sun heats the water in the coils, which is pumped to coils in a heat transfer tank containing water.
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Yelas minimizes this by filling his reel only two-thirds full, which keeps the fluorocarbon line from popping off the spool in coils.
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A serpent is coiled round the body, and between the coils are the signs of the Zodiac.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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At the top of the coils is a manifold, the hot air being forced through small holes to circulate in and around a regulation perforated roasting cylinder; the vapors and spent air are then drawn into an overhead exhaust pipe that connects with a pipe provided with a fresh-air intake, the idea being to return them to the roasting cylinder after being mixed with fresh air and heated in the coils as before.
All About Coffee 1909
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