Definition of Boosters

1. Noun. (plural of booster) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Boosters

1. booster [n] - See also: booster

Lexicographical Neighbors of Boosters

booster
booster amplifier
booster cable
booster cables
booster club
booster dose
booster injection
booster response
booster rocket
booster shot
booster stations
booster unit
boosterish
boosterism
boosterisms
boosters (current term)
boostglide
boosting
boosts
boot
boot-cut
boot-topping
boot-tree
boot block
boot camp
boot camps
boot cut
boot disk
boot disks
boot knife

Literary usage of Boosters

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Experimental Electrical Engineering and Manual for Electrical Testing for by Vladimir Karapetoff (1910)
"296; there is little difference between the two methods. Shunt-excited boosters with hand regulation are satisfactory only in plants in which ..."

2. Principles of Direct Current Machines by Alexander Suss Langsdorf (1915)
"boosters may be driven by any form of prime mover, but are generally ... 116, is especially objectionable in boosters, and should be reduced to a minimum. ..."

3. Storage Battery Engineering: A Practical Treatise for Engineers by Lamar Lyndon (1910)
"boosters. boosters are dynamo-electric machines which are placed in series ... boosters may be hand-controlled or automatic in their variation of voltage, ..."

4. Electric Railway Engineering by Horace Field Parshall, Henry Metcalf Hobart (1907)
"These boosters are transformers of ratio unity, of which the primary is connected across a section insulated in the trolley wire, and the secondary across ..."

5. Electrical Engineering: The Theory and Characteristics of Electrical by Clarence Victor Christie (1917)
"boosters.—boosters are direct-current generators connected in series with the ... boosters are used to compensate for line drop in distributing systems by ..."

6. Polyphase Currents by Alfred Still (1906)
"(72) boosters at Intervals along the Transmission Line.—In the event of a large pressure drop occurring between the generating and receiving ends of a long ..."

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