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Meanings of rheostat in English

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resistencia variable

Resistor for regulating current.

resistencia variable
Usage of rheostat in English
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Slowly he closed the rheostat and put the power into the coil.
The Black Star Passes
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Now he cranked up the rheostat far enough to make me squint.
Fear nothing
3
Targeting of the sphingolipid rheostat may thus open new treatment options.
Pubmed
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A second later, the rheostat automatically returned to the OFF position.
Dayworld
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The rheostat boxes themselves are also insulated from the angle iron supporting them.
The New York Subway, Its Construction and Equipment
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The motor can be controlled by a small three or four-point battery rheostat.
The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
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Duncan's fingers, it might be said, were not always on his mental rheostat.
Dayworld Breakup
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To regulate the strength of the current a rheostat was placed in the circuit.
Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
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I have been using the same method for my water rheostat (homemade).
The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
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That gives you your direction, and the rheostat here at the belt changes the velocity.
Islands of Space
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To the left of this coil was a large relay switch, and a rheostat control.
The Black Star Passes
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But the rheostat was all the way over now.
More Than Honor
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Impulsively, George Hamlin twisted the rheostat to full power.
The god project
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The Commander hobbled toward it, and manipulated a rheostat.
The Sky Trap
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He waited, but when nothing more startling occurred, he gave the rheostat a sharp turn.
The Black Star Passes
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Thus, we can view the MOM as the central locale of a dynamic life-death rheostat.
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Rheostat through the time