magnetoelectric machine

1. 1.

   a small dynamo with a secondary winding that produces a high voltage enabling a spark to jump between the poles of a spark plug in a gasoline engine

   Synonymsmagneto

   Broadergenerator

   Part ofignition

Questions about magnetoelectric machine

What does magnetoelectric machine mean?

magnetoelectric machine means "a small dynamo with a secondary winding that produces a high voltage enabling a spark to jump between the poles of a spark plug in a gasoline engine".

What is another word for magnetoelectric machine?

Close synonyms include magneto. 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 magnetoelectric machine a common word?

magnetoelectric machine 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.