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Definition of Derate
1. Verb. Lower the rated electrical capability of electrical apparatus.
Definition of Derate
1. Verb. To lower the rated capability of any rated equipment or material. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Derate
1. to lower the rated capability of [v -RATED, -RATING, -RATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Derate
Literary usage of Derate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Coke, Knt., Lord Chief Justice by Humphry William Woolrych (1826)
"... 'derate calculation^ to 3o,00o/. he was advantaged by a near alliance to
nobility (/). It has been supposed that this marriage was Contracted with Mrs. ..."
2. The Book of the Church by Robert Southey (1825)
"... derate supper, to refresh his spirits, and then going to bed slept soundly
till the hour when, his attendants were appointed to await his rising. ..."
3. Foot-prints of an Itinerant by Maxwell Pierson Gaddis (1855)
"A derate ON UNIVERSALISM.- IN 1838 Rev. Robert Smith, a Universalist preacher,
living in Mason, Warren county, Ohio, preached every four weeks in the town ..."
4. The Life and Times of Charles James Fox by John Russell Russell (1866)
"derate. IM 1799, a new war broke out on the Continent. The Emperor Paul, having
succeeded to the Empress Catherine, found himself unable to endure the ..."
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