| 单词 | rheostat |
| 释义 | rheostat (once / 33674 pages) n WORD FAMILY rheostat: rheostats USAGE EXAMPLES“It’s more of a rheostat than a switch, really.” Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind(2007) Giant microphones, vacuum tubes, capstans, switches, rheostats and broadcast towers erupted around you in a circular photomural 67 feet in diameter. New York Times(Jun 25, 2014) “They’ve created this bizarre rheostat about the amount of change that would need to take place chemically in order to justify a patent,” says Simmons. Nature(Jun 19, 2013) n resistor for regulating current Syn|Hypo|Hyper variable resistor dimmer a rheostat that varies the current through an electric light in order to control the level of illumination resistance, resistor an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current |
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