field winding

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 coil

   Broadercoil

Questions about field winding

What does field winding mean?

field winding 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 winding?

Close synonyms include field coil. 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 winding a common word?

field winding 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.