Tesla coil

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of resonant transformer circuit used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high-frequency alternating-current electricity.

Word forms

Tesla coil Tesla coils

Etymology

From the inventor Nikola Tesla, around 1891.

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