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converter

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as in engine

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Recent Examples of converter The solid-state transformer has a modular design with an active front end interacting with the power grid, an AC/DC converter, and a high-frequency isolation transformer that either steps up or steps down the voltage. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 24 Aug. 2026 The facility is reportedly the world’s first 500-kilovolt (kV), 2,000-megawatt (MW) flexible direct current (DC) offshore converter station. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 27 July 2026 Altman, 41, is OpenAI’s billionaire cofounder, CEO and chief converter of skepticism into purchase orders. — Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026 Jamison is the city’s most prolific converter of offices to market-rate apartments and currently has a major makeover of a downtown office skyscraper underway for tenants who can pay top rents. — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for converter

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Noun

The smaller engine also draws on engineering experience from Frenzy 8.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
With much of the credit going to engine immobilizers, car theft rates fell 80% between 1990 and 2020, according to Security Journal.

— Alison J. Stein, HubSpot, 29 Oct. 2026

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Every transformer on the grid—from the cylinders perched on utility lines to the big spiky devices at substations—trades voltage for current at a fixed ratio.

— Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Some 70% of transmission lines are more than 25 years old, and the average large power transformer has been in service for nearly four decades.

— Dr. Sarah Kapnick, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of transformer

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This gave the team control over the motor’s movement without physically manipulating it.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
The whole thing would be just another cringeworthy display of teenage rebellion if the potential consequences weren’t so serious — many of those bikes are equipped with powerful electric motors and can go up to 60 mph.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026

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