transductor
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Latin trānsductus + -or (“electrical component”).[1]
Noun
[edit]transductor (plural transductors)
- A kind of magnetic amplifier used in power systems for compensating reactive power.
- 1962 June, “Talking of Trains: Notable new locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 373:
- The essential feature is that two adjacent transformer tappings are connected to the load simultaneously, each connection having a self-excited transductor in series; [...].
Usage notes
[edit]Not to be confused with transducer.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “transductor”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French transducteur.
Noun
[edit]transductor n (plural transductoare)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | transductor | transductorul | transductoare | transductoarele | |
| genitive-dative | transductor | transductorului | transductoare | transductoarelor | |
| vocative | transductorule | transductoarelor | |||
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]transductor m (plural transductores)
Further reading
[edit]- “transductor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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