"Tesla coil" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Tesla coils [plural]
Etymology: From the inventor Nikola Tesla, around 1891. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Tesla coil (plural Tesla coils)
  1. A type of resonant transformer circuit used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high-frequency alternating-current electricity. Wikipedia link: Tesla coil Categories (topical): Electromagnetism, Energy Translations (resonant transformer circuit): 特斯拉線圈 (Chinese Mandarin), 特斯拉线圈 (Tèsīlā xiànquān) (Chinese Mandarin), teslamuuntaja (Finnish), bobine Tesla [feminine] (French), Teslaspule [feminine] (German), テスラコイル (Tesura-koiru) (Japanese), Теслагийн ороомог (Teslagiin oroomog) (Mongolian), кату́шка Те́слы (katúška Tɛ́sly) [feminine] (Russian), Tesla bobini (Turkish)

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