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  • noun Plural form of inductor.

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Examples

  • The building blocks of electronic circuits are resistors, capacitors and inductors; they have been around for a while.

    Memristors: the 4th electronic component « Anglican Samizdat 2010

  • Motors, generators, transformers and inductors are being designed to be more energy efficient by utilizing thin gage silicon-iron.

    Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » Super Efficient Motors 2009

  • A memristor falls into the same category as capacitors, resistors and inductors -- the basic building blocks of computer chips.

    HP research may lead to boot-free PCs 2008

  • The devices and methods that work with electrons and their effects—capacitors, inductors, transistors, operational amplifiers—group naturally into electronics; they work with the medium of electrons, and can therefore “talk” to each other easily.

    The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

  • With the capturing and harnessing of these for use, a parade of methods and devices followed—the electric battery, capacitors and inductors, transformers, telegraphy, the electrical generator and motor, the telephone, wireless telegraphy, the cathode ray tube, the vacuum tube.

    The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

  • When you have enormous electric field transients with large GHZ-range energies present, the energy ignores normal bypass capacitors they look like inductors and other hardening measures, and can get through small defects in shielding.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » They Made a Multilateralism and Called It Peace 2009

  • : New research suggests that in addition to resistors, capacitors and inductors, the realm of two-terminal elements used for circuit building includes the "memristor"

    What the Fed Didn't 2008

  • The power which is exchanged between reactive elements (inductors and capacitors) is called reactive power, Q, and is measured in vars (volt-ampere-reactive) or kilovars.

    Dark Matter: Still Dark. Julianne 2008

  • I spent of lot of time making weird noises in my room with the aid of transistors, resistors, capacitors, inductors, and all those wonderful things you hardly see any more when you open up a modern electonic device.

    Sound Synthesis Master Dies cjohnson 2005

  • Remember this post when you are the grizzled old game player who can't abide these newfangled 3D hologram nerve inductors that the kids are all crazy about...

    Nation-Time and Newspaper Criticism 2004

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