magslip

English

Alternative forms

• mag-slip, mag slip

Etymology

From "magnetic slip ring", because these replace electrical slip-rings that rely on direct contact.

Noun

magslip (plural magslips)

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) Any of a variety of devices that rely on magnetic slip rings to drive a transmitter and receiver that rotate in unison.
   • 1981, W E K Middleton, Radar Development in Canada, →ISBN, page 130:

     Provision should be made as in GL 1 for entry of electrical supplies and for connection of telephone and magslip cables.

   • 2013, Paul Anthony Russell, Leslie Jackson, Thomas D. Morton, Reeds Vol 8 General Engineering Knowledge for Marine Engineers, →ISBN:

     There are two gyroscopes. One is a vertical keeping gyroscope whose signal goes through two selective transmitter magslips to a follow through magslip which is similarly operated by a rolling velocity gyroscope. The combined selected signal is transmitted to the hunter magslip of the oil motor and pump. The mechanical movement of a gyroscope alters the rotor position of the transmitter magslip and the current flow moves the rotor of the hunter magslip to a corresponding positon (just as transmitter and receiver telemotors).

   • 2017, A. M. P. Brookes, P. Hammond, Basic Instrumentation for Engineers and Physicists, →ISBN:

     With a single magslip as the transmitter and another as the receiver, the error of alignment is of the order of 1°.

Anagrams

• magilps, slam pig