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say it: AWL-tur-nay-tur
alternator is a noun meaning "an old term for an electric generator that produces alternating current (especially in automobiles)". It carries one recorded sense.
an old term for an electric generator that produces alternating current (especially in automobiles)
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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for alternator come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
147,478 entries in AltF Lexicon, every one with its syllables marked.
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