Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for periodically changing the direction of an electric current.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Elec.) An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric current.
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- noun An
instrument forreversing thedirection of anelectric current .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek to flow + to turn.
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