Thesaurus results for TRANSFORMER

transformer

noun

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as in converter

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Recent Examples of transformer Witnesses in East Chicago believe an electrical utility pole went up in flames following a possible transformer explosion. — Lauren Victory, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026 In Hackensack, New Jersey, a blown transformer during Tuesday's storm sparked a fire that destroyed multiple vehicles and left more than 1,000 customers without power. — Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 29 July 2026 First, a low-voltage DC generator runs a high-voltage AC inverter, which then channels current through a transformer and finally a voltage multiplier. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 July 2026 That's all thanks to its space-optimizing transformer capabilities. — New Atlas, 21 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for transformer

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Yangi said a Cellera system has been commissioned at a European converter and is operating in a commercial manufacturing environment, following more than a decade of development.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of converter

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His point is that although LLMs, no less than chess engines and other specialist systems, are trained on a specific task—namely, predicting the next word in a text passage—that task is special.

— George Musser, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026
Cress added that while this type of model helicopter boasts a light, single-engine design that is usually trustworthy, the chopper’s blades can lose their momentum in rotation immediately if there is engine failure.

— David Chiu, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026

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Direct inhibitory currents appeared in a third of cells two millimeters out, and stimulating the visual cortex had measurable effects as far as frontal motor areas.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2026
Costco recently made the decision to limit how much motor oil, which is affected by crude markets and refining capacity, its members can buy.

— Kevin Williams, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of motor

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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

Definition of machine

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During our bass outing, Wing continually rammed submerged stumps and sent Dunn and his equipment sprawling.

— Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2026
Gabriele Polcari, a Formula Medicine physiotherapist working with Lucchini, stated that cooling equipment is merely a last line of defense, with fitness preparation being the primary focus.

— Patrick Iversen, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026

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