"magslip" meaning in All languages combined

See magslip on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: magslips [plural]
Etymology: From "magnetic slip ring", because these replace electrical slip-rings that rely on direct contact. Head templates: {{en-noun}} magslip (plural magslips)
  1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) Any of a variety of devices that rely on magnetic slip rings to drive a transmitter and receiver that rotate in unison. Tags: Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, UK Synonyms: mag-slip, mag slip

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1981, W E K Middleton, Radar Development in Canada, →ISBN, page 130:",
          "text": "Provision should be made as in GL 1 for entry of electrical supplies and for connection of telephone and magslip cables.",
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          "ref": "2013, Paul Anthony Russell, Leslie Jackson, Thomas D. Morton, Reeds Vol 8 General Engineering Knowledge for Marine Engineers, →ISBN:",
          "text": "There are two gyroscopes. One is a vertical keeping gyroscope whose signal goes through two selective transmitter magslips to a follow through magslip which is similarly operated by a rolling velocity gyroscope. The combined selected signal is transmitted to the hunter magslip of the oil motor and pump. The mechanical movement of a gyroscope alters the rotor position of the transmitter magslip and the current flow moves the rotor of the hunter magslip to a corresponding positon (just as transmitter and receiver telemotors).",
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          "ref": "2017, A. M. P. Brookes, P. Hammond, Basic Instrumentation for Engineers and Physicists, →ISBN:",
          "text": "With a single magslip as the transmitter and another as the receiver, the error of alignment is of the order of 1°.",
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        "Any of a variety of devices that rely on magnetic slip rings to drive a transmitter and receiver that rotate in unison."
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        "(UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) Any of a variety of devices that rely on magnetic slip rings to drive a transmitter and receiver that rotate in unison."
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        },
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          "text": "There are two gyroscopes. One is a vertical keeping gyroscope whose signal goes through two selective transmitter magslips to a follow through magslip which is similarly operated by a rolling velocity gyroscope. The combined selected signal is transmitted to the hunter magslip of the oil motor and pump. The mechanical movement of a gyroscope alters the rotor position of the transmitter magslip and the current flow moves the rotor of the hunter magslip to a corresponding positon (just as transmitter and receiver telemotors).",
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          "ref": "2017, A. M. P. Brookes, P. Hammond, Basic Instrumentation for Engineers and Physicists, →ISBN:",
          "text": "With a single magslip as the transmitter and another as the receiver, the error of alignment is of the order of 1°.",
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