Magneto Synonyms

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A small dynamo with a secondary winding that produces a high voltage enabling a spark to jump between the poles of a spark plug in a gasoline engine
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. magnetoelectric machine

Magneto Sentence Examples

  • The magneto system itself is dying out.

  • Though many types of manually operated switchboards have been brought into use, differing from each other in respect of circuit and working arrangements, yet each of them may be placed in one or other of three main classes according as the system of working is magneto, call-wire, or common battery.

  • The fundamental principle of the magneto system has been described in connexion with the " Standard board."

  • There are still many magneto exchanges in existence, but when new exchanges are erected only the very smallest are equipped for magneto working, that system having succumbed to the common battery one in the case of all equipments of moderate and large dimensions.

  • Holmes had made a magneto machine with multiple permanent magnets which was installed in 1862 in Dungeness lighthouse.

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