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Rheostat   Listen
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Rheostat  n.  (Elec.) A contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of resistance which can be varied at will.





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"Rheostat" Quotes from Famous Books



... you ever hear what you could do with a microphone, a rheostat, and a small transformer coil if you attached them properly to a direct-current electric lighting circuit? No? Well, an amateur with a little knowledge of electricity could do it. The thing is easily constructed, and the result is a ...
— Guy Garrick • Arthur B. Reeve


Words linked to "Rheostat" :   wiper arm, variable resistor, resistance


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