Definition of Sparking

1. Verb. (present participle of spark) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sparking

1. spark [v] - See also: spark

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sparking

spark transmitter
spark up
sparke
sparked
sparker
sparkers
sparkes
sparkful
sparkgap
sparkgaps
sparkie
sparkier
sparkies
sparkiest
sparkily
sparking (current term)
sparking plug
sparkingly
sparkish
sparkle
sparkle metal
sparkleberries
sparkleberry
sparkled
sparkler
sparklers
sparkles
sparkless
sparklet
sparklets

Literary usage of Sparking

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

1. Electricity in Gases by John Sealy Edward Townsend (1915)
"All the determinations of the sparking potentials with the different gases given in the above tables were made by observing the point at which sparking took ..."

2. Electrical Machine Design: The Design and Specification of Direct and by Alexander Gray (1913)
"The sparking Voltage.—Down to this point it has been assumed that the coils in ... Under these conditions the value of the reactance voltage when sparking ..."

3. Electrical Machine Design: The Design and Specification of Direct and by Alexander Gray (1913)
"The sparking Voltage.—Down to this point it has been assumed that the coils in ... Under these conditions the value of the reactance voltage when sparking ..."

4. Dynamo-electric Machinery: A Manual for Students of Electrotechniques by Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1904)
"This sparking is intimately connected with the various reactions of the armature, ... Cause of sparking.—The sparks which appear at the commutator under ..."

5. Practical Calculation of Dynamo-electric Machines: a manual for electrical by Alfred Eugene Wiener (1901)
"CAUSES OF sparking.—sparking may be due to any of the following causes: (i) ... PREVENTION OF sparking.—It is seen from the preceding that sparking at the ..."

6. The Dynamo: Its Theory, Design and Manufacture by Charles Caesar Hawkins, F. Wallis (1903)
"sparking at the brushes.—All who have had practical experience of the working of dynamos will know that in bi- or multi-polar machines giving a continuous ..."

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