Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A receiving device used in wireless telegraphy, in which the electric wave is caused to vary the current in a local electric circuit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Electronics) a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (such as those arising from temperature fluctuations); a thermal cymoscope.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
ballast resistor
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations)
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-- And will it not reflect as much on thy character, Nic., to turn barretter in thy old days -- a stirrer-up of quarrels amongst thy neighbours?
History of John Bull John Arbuthnot 1701
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