primary winding

1. 1.

   coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit

   “current through the primary coil induces current in the secondary coil”

   Synonymsprimary coilprimary

   Broadercoil

   Part oftransformer

Questions about primary winding

What does primary winding mean?

primary winding means "coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit".

What is another word for primary winding?

Close synonyms include primary coil, primary. 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 primary winding a common word?

primary 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.