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Example sentences for "converters"

Lexicographically close words:
conversion; conversions; convert; converted; converter; converteth; converti; convertibility; convertible; converting
  1. They are the wood-choppers, stewards, caterers of the forest, converters in the fields and chemists everywhere.

  2. They are the ever active pruners of our trees and converters of forest debris.

  3. Only the faint whine of the converters and the swinging needles of meters strung all over the room showed that the beam was in operation.

  4. The great project that had almost halted all other field work was finished--and no one knew what to expect when Hansen threw the switch that fed power from the converters into the giant tubes.

  5. So they would have done, by thousands,' answered the parson; 'but the converters will not let them go.

  6. Burgomaster Yunge has already over a hundred men to provide for, and if the apostacy extends much further, the last true believing christian of Schweidnitz will have the whole seven squadrons of converters collected in his own house.

  7. When the converters are made in this manner, it is evident that the phases of the currents in the sections of the generator coil will be reproduced in the converter coils.

  8. The reactors wouldn't react, the converters wouldn't convert, and no matter how many switches they shoved in, there was no power output.

  9. They stared in awe, marveling at the energy that was pouring out of the converters into a tiny spot that inched its way around the collapsium shielding.

  10. The huge insulating plug, housing the ends of the three great cables leading to the converters of the turbo-alternator, lay innocently upon the ground, its three yawning holes invitingly open to savage arms.

  11. The converters simply change the aspect of the rays, from the energy aspect to the material aspect.

  12. Since such converters must be designed and built especially for each installation, and since they require a high degree of precision, it is not worth while to construct them for a purely temporary mechanism, such as this one.

  13. Faster and faster he drove that fifth-order beam along the track of the fugitive, until a speed was attained beyond which his detecting converters could not hold the ether-rays they were following.

  14. In the projected space-vessel we shall install converters to utilize all the energy, so that there will be no loss whatever.

  15. The mould-train now carries its empty moulds to a cooling yard, and, as soon as they are cool enough to be used again, carries them back to the neighbourhood of the converters to receive a new lot of steel.

  16. One of the greatest avenues of outlet is through a class of dealers known as converters, and there are converters operating in every kind of fabric from cotton to silk.

  17. What project or end can a few converters propose?

  18. State the case of converting infidels; the converters are supposed few; the bulk of the priests must be of the converted country.

  19. English ecclesiastics felt keenly the reproach made against them by the Roman Catholics that they were not "converters of infidels.

  20. The gigantic rotary converters of the Manhattan Elevated Railway.

  21. The middle figure gives a view of the series of converters in the power house of the Manhattan Elevated Railway.

  22. Someone's told him that pound for pound chickens are the most efficient feed converters of all the domestic animals.

  23. Those old spindizzy converters weren't too choosy about how they scattered radiation.

  24. The old spindizzies were soundly engineered converters of almost childlike simplicity that could and did carry ships enormous distances if their passengers didn't care about subjective time-lag, and a little radioactivity.

  25. In connection with synchronous converters the current may be made either lagging or leading by adjusting the field excitation.

  26. Rotary converters are of different types and may be started either from the direct-current side or from the alternating-current side.

  27. In theaters they would be noticeable only in connection with rotary converters which are sometimes used to convert a.

  28. Coils of wire or bars of copper placed on, or imbedded in, the pole pieces of a dynamo-electric machine; used mostly in connection with synchronous motors or rotary converters to prevent hunting.

  29. The converters receiving this energy from their respective groups of transformers in turn deliver it (less a loss approximating 4 per cent.

  30. Commutating pole rotary converters for railway service are normally arranged for automatic compounding which is effected by the proper combination of series excitation and inductance between the generator and the rotary converter.

  31. These converters are adapted for a variety of purposes where a variable conversion ratio is required, either to maintain constant D.

  32. In the majority of cases two or three phase converters are used on account of economy of copper in the transmission line.

  33. The change in commutator voltage for constant collector ring voltage is in virtue of the property of rotary converters that the ratio of these two voltages is a function of the width of the pole arc.

  34. Standard rotary converters have been developed for 25 and 60 cycles.

  35. Converters may be operated inverted where it is required to furnish constant or variable A.

  36. Shunt wound converters are satisfactory for substations in large cities and similar installations where due to the larger number of car units demanding power, the load is more nearly constant.

  37. Converters of this type are built in capacities from 300 kw.

  38. It is liable to flash over at the direct current brushes, which is common in high frequency converters where there are a great number of poles and the brushes are necessarily spaced close together around the commutator.

  39. The application of commutating pole converters is particularly desirable where special requirements such as great overload capacity or large capacity and low voltage enable them to show to the greatest advantage.

  40. It is simply a combination of two standard pieces of electrical apparatus, accordingly there are incorporated in it no details of construction essentially different from those encountered in standard rotary converters and alternators.

  41. Commutating poles as applied to rotary converters fulfill the same functions as in the more familiar applications to dynamos and motors.

  42. The battalions of converters marched from province to province till they reached the northern frontier, carrying everywhere the same terror.

  43. The converters indemnified themselves at the expense of another frontier population, that was not dependent on France.

  44. The converters are in still another part of the grounds.

  45. As these methods have been illustrated in the chapter on Converters (page 1,462), it is unnecessary to again discuss them here.

  46. This transformation is usually made for use with rotary converters and may be accomplished in several ways.

  47. It is used for starting rotary converters and direct current motors of large capacity having starting torque small enough to permit cutting out the starting resistance in few steps.

  48. The introduction of synchronous motors made it necessary that the arc should be extinguished immediately, otherwise the synchronous motors and converters would drop out of step, and the system would in this way be shut down.

  49. Will our kind converters to the new reading of the ways of Providence reflect maturely on this matter?

  50. Some converters are provided with a small induction motor for starting mounted on an iron bracket cast in the converter frame, and whose shaft is keyed to that of the converter.

  51. In large sub-stations containing several rotary converters how are they operated?

  52. With diametrical secondaries, the primaries should preferably be connected delta, except with regulating pole converters where they must be connected Y.

  53. In some cases the sub-station contains also converters supplying direct current for battery charging, electro-plating, etc.

  54. Synchronous converters are frequently installed in connection with Edison systems, where three wire direct current is required.

  55. There should be one reserve rotary converter to every three or four converters actually required.

  56. The devices employed for the purpose are usually copper shields placed between or around the pole pieces, although in some converters the copper is embedded in the poles, and in others it is made simply to surround a portion of the pole tips.

  57. Motor converters are occasionally used on high frequency systems, as their commutating component is of half frequency, and thus permits better commutator design than a high frequency converter.

  58. In all cases the proportion is such that the alternating current voltage is the lower, being in the single phase and in the two phase converters about .

  59. It has its place, but to my mind its position is a false one when it is used for house-to-house distribution with converters for each customer.

  60. All grades of steel are made in the converters from the softest wire and bridge stock to spring steel.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "converters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.