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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 is pronounced /ˈɔltɚˌneɪtɚ/ — AWL-tur-nay-tur. 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.