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Definition of Homopolar
1. Adjective. (physics) Having symmetrically equal distribution of polarity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Homopolar
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homopolar
Literary usage of Homopolar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dynamo-electric Machinery: A Manual for Students of Electrotechnics by Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1903)
"homopolar operations give rise to a continuous induction of electromotive-force
... Machines giving currents by continuous homopolar induction were formerly ..."
2. Electrical Engineering: The Theory and Characteristics of Electrical by Clarence Victor Christie (1917)
"homopolar generators. 209. homopolar Generators.—homopolar or acyclic generators
are designed with the armature conductors revolving in a unidirectional ..."
3. The Dynamo: Its Theory, Design and Manufacture by Charles Caesar Hawkins, F. Wallis (1903)
"Difficulties in homopolar continuous-current machine —While the bipolar dynamo
may be said to be naturally an alternator, and only indirectly and ..."
4. Principles of Direct-current Machines by Alexander Suss Langsdorf (1919)
"The Unipolar or homopolar Machine.—In the type armature described in the preceding
... homopolar or acyclic generator. machine consists of a conductor so ..."
5. Principles of Electrical Engineering by William Henry Timbie, Vannevar Bush (1922)
"They are called homopolar generators. They are not much used except where very high
... Such a homopolar generator is shown diagrammatically in Fig. ..."
6. The Dynamo: Its Theory, Design, and Manufacture by Charles Caesar Hawkins, F. Wallis (1907)
"Difficulties in homopolar continuous-current machine. ... a continuous-current
machine, it may with equal truth be said that the homopolar dynamo naturally ..."
7. Dynamo-electric Machinery: A Manual for Students of Electrotechnics by Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1896)
"BROWN'S homopolar DYNAMO. have been designed by E. Ferraris, EL Voice, Delafield,
... The theory of the homopolar disk-dynamo has been given ..."
8. Theory and Calculations of Electrical Apparatus by Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1917)
"CHAPTER XXII UNIPOLAR MACHINES homopolar or Acyclic Machines 247. ... A more
correct name is homopolar machine," signifying uniformity of polarity, ..."
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