Designating a device (esp. a dynamo or other rotating electromagnetic induction machine) which generates an electric current, magnetic field…

having the shunt circuit wound in parallel with the main circuit.

Electrical Engineering. Designating a type of dynamo (invented by Thomas Edison) which utilized the fact that the magnetizability of iron…

Designating a device or apparatus in which one component is characteristically situated over another, spec. (a) a dynamo having two magnetic poles…