converter

noun

Definition of converternext
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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  1. engine
  2. transformer
  3. motor
  4. machine
Noun
  • States preparing for an imminent war prioritize military mobilization and strategic hardening; Fujian, by contrast, is being developed as a long-term engine of economic integration, innovation, and cross-Strait connectivity.
    — Ningrong Liu, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The cultural notables in the room — including painters Richard Nugent and Romare Bearden, poet Arna Bontemps and theater impresario Abram Hill — speak up for art as the Renaissance’s engine, remembering gifted colleagues no longer around.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of engine
Noun
  • Then, in 2017, a team at Google devised a new kind of neural network architecture called a transformer that supercharged the attention method and stripped away everything else.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026
  • In the following decades, computer scientists and engineers enabled computing capabilities to be scaled up, developing graphics chips, the transformer architecture and more.
    — Arryn Robbins, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of transformer
Noun
  • 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
Definition of motor
Noun
  • Blacksmith instead buys its own machines, tens of thousands of them, according to Jayaprakash, and installs them in data centers around the world.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Latest from the show floor Stern’s latest offering, Fallout, stood near the entrance of a convention floor packed with the latest machines from manufacturers like Jersey Jack, Barrels of Fun, Spooky Pinball, and others.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of machine

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“Converter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/converter. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.

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