Rewinding
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act or process by which something is rewound.
- 2 A set of replacement coils on an electric motor or other device that uses wound wires to generate a magnetic field.
"The Crookes tube has accordingly been modified until it is no longer a new-fangled burning glass: motors, coils, rewindings, regulators and transformers have been interposed between the street current and the tube[…]"
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of rewind form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"The Crookes tube has accordingly been modified until it is no longer a new-fangled burning glass: motors, coils, rewindings, regulators and transformers have been interposed between the street current and the tube[…]"
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