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converter

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as in engine

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Recent Examples of converter 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 Just note that the steamer isn’t dual-voltage, so a converter is needed for international travel. — Alexandra Malmed, InStyle, 19 June 2026 The input decoder chip is a Chrontel CH7516 DisplayPort-to-LVDS converter. — IEEE Spectrum, 18 June 2026 The electrical system has a shore power hookup, multi-stage 120-V converter and solar prewiring. — C.c. Weiss may 15, New Atlas, 15 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for converter

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Delays in testing and qualifying Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine and an explosion of the rocket’s Centaur upper stage during a ground test in 2023 eventually pushed Vulcan’s first test flight into early 2024.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
Leaning on rules of engagement may do little good for Ferrari in the 2026 title fight, such is the gap to Antonelli and the form of Mercedes, which still has a car and engine upgrade in the pipeline for this season.

— Luke Smith, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

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Hyosung’s high-voltage solid-state transformer uses power semiconductors to control electricity.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026
Because the coating stops being an insulator when its breakdown threshold is reached, the charge rips through it in a miniature dielectric breakdown, the same failure mode that kills capacitors and transformer insulation.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of transformer

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Its compact permanent magnet motor enables a smaller pod diameter, reducing hydrodynamic drag while maintaining high propulsion performance.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2026
The Integrated Traction Management system allows to get easily ascend 45-degree slopes by monitoring all four wheels in real time, and responding in just 50 milliseconds to control motor speed.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Sep. 2026

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These pioneers fully expected that machines would one day surpass humans—that AGI would become ASI, or artificial superintelligence—because there’s no reason to expect that humans are the pinnacle of intelligence.

— George Musser, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026
Gauthier has in a short time already proved himself as a shot-volume machine and dangerous goal scorer at the NHL level.

— Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026

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