loading coil

American  

noun

Electricity.

1. an inductance coil used to improve the characteristics of a transmission line.

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loading coil British  

noun

1. an inductance coil inserted at regular intervals and in series with the conductors of a transmission line in order to improve its characteristics

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Etymology

Origin of loading coil

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Jack connected a loading coil with deft fingers.

From The End of Time by West, Wallace

The calculation of the size of loading coil is quite easy but requires more arithmetic than I care to impose on you at present.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John

That’s why your friends add a loading coil when they 121want to tune for the long wave-length stations, that is, those with a low frequency.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John

The Pupin and Campbell "loading coil," and the deForest "audion," are both extinct technology today, but in 1913 they gave Vail's company the best LONG-DISTANCE lines ever built.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce

For quite a range of wave-lengths we may use the same loading coil and tune the antenna circuit entirely by this series condenser.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John