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from The Century Dictionary.

noun In electricity, a starting-rheostat or an autotransformer.

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THE FIVE-POINT RHEOSTAT is used as a "starting-box" in the armature-circuit and in various other ways to regulate speed.

How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity

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