field coil

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsfield winding

   Broadercoil

Questions about field coil

What does field coil mean?

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

What is another word for field coil?

Close synonyms include field winding. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is field coil a common word?

field coil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.