FIELD COIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does field coil mean? 

• FIELD COIL (noun)
  The noun FIELD COIL has 1 sense:

1. the electric coil around a field magnet that produces the magneto motive force to set up the flux in an electric machine

  Familiarity information: FIELD COIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIELD COIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The electric coil around a field magnet that produces the magneto motive force to set up the flux in an electric machine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

field coil; field winding

Hypernyms ("field coil" is a kind of...):

coil (reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit)