Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In electricity, a coil of wire around the field-magnet of a generator, motor, or other electrical machine, or one which serves to produce by means of the current flowing in it the magnetic field of any electrical device.
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Examples
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` ` By doing this the resistance was put where it would take up the least room, and where it would serve as an additional field-coil when starting the motor, and it replaced all the resistance-boxes which had heretofore been in plain sight.
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"By doing this the resistance was put where it would take up the least room, and where it would serve as an additional field-coil when starting the motor, and it replaced all the resistance-boxes which had heretofore been in plain sight.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905
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