An alternator is a device, used especially in a car, that creates an electrical current that changes direction as it flows.
alternator in British English
(ˈɔːltəˌneɪtə)
noun
an electrical machine that generates an alternating current
alternator in American English
(ˈɔltərˌneɪtər; ˈæltərˌneɪtər)
noun
an electric generator or dynamo producing alternating current
alternator in Automotive Engineering
(ɔltərneɪtər)
Word forms: (regular plural) alternators
noun
(Automotive engineering: Vehicle components, Lighting and electrical/electronic systems)
An alternator is a device used in a car that creates an electrical current that changes directionas it flows.
It is the responsibility of the alternator to ensure that the battery is fully charged and ready to go.
Most alternator difficulties are caused by bad connections or not having the drive belt tension correctlyadjusted.
The battery normally keeps the alternator output voltage within acceptable limits.
alternator in Electrical Engineering
(ɔltərneɪtər)
Word forms: (regular plural) alternators
noun
(Electrical engineering: Electrical power, Motor or generator)
An alternator is an electrical machine that generates an alternating current.
AC power may be produced by using a motor generator set where you use the DC powerto run a DC motor which then runs an AC alternator producing true sinusoid wave forms.
A low alternator voltage cannot produce maximum motor current that in turn produces the high tractiveeffort required for acceleration.
An alternator is an electrical machine that generates an alternating current.
Examples of 'alternator' in a sentence
alternator
The battery and the alternator were finished and I was on the way out.
Robert Wilson INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS (2002)
`We'll have the fitter here on the dot of eight tomorrow, and he'll have the alternator with him," he reassured.
Murray, Stephen DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION (2002)
It looks like a Russian turbo alternator at fifty-hertz, not sixty like ours.