What does "inductor" mean?

A passive device that introduces inductance into an electrical circuit.

Inductor

Common synonyms include: coil, component, device, electrical parts and devices, generator, inductance.

noun

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Noun

1
A passive device that introduces inductance into an electrical circuit.
"The receiver on a locomotive passing over the inductors on the track on the approach side of a distant or multiple-aspect signal"
2
an electrical device (typically a conducting coil) that introduces inductance into a circuit wordnet
3
An evocator or an organizer.
4
One who, or that which, inducts.
"In certain families one can find several “inductees” grouped around one influential “inductor.” I have observed the case of a forever complaining old lady, living with her married daughter, who attracted and shut everybody, mother, father, and two daughters, into the closed circle of their mutual and reciprocal lamentations."

"The receiver on a locomotive passing over the inductors on the track on the approach side of a distant or multiple-aspect signal"

Borrowed from Medieval Latin inductor, from Latin induco.