compound-wound

[ kom-pound-wound ]

adjective

, Electricity.

1. noting an electric device in which part of the field circuit is in parallel with the armature circuit and part is in series with it.

Other Words From

• compound winding [wahyn, -ding], noun

Example Sentences

Sometimes they are compound-wound, but compounding is less important in telephone generators than in some other uses.

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With compound wound dynamo fields the cab lamps will continue to burn when head-lamp is extinguished by lifting carbon by hand.

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The pounding of the lamp occurs with the new compound wound machines.

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The compound wound generator is therefore the one most commonly employed.

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The compound wound dynamo is really a combination of the two methods just given.

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