Definition of Selsyn

1. Noun. A system consisting of a generator and a motor so connected that the motor will assume the same relative position as the generator; the generator and the motor are synchronized.

Exact synonyms: Synchro
Generic synonyms: System

Definition of Selsyn

1. a type of remote-control device [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Selsyn

sello
selloff
selloffs
sellotaped
sellotapes
sellotaping
sellout
sellouts
sells
sells past the close
sellthrough
selma'o
selone
selones
sels
selsyn (current term)
selsyns
selters water
seltzer
seltzer bottle
seltzer water
seltzer waters
seltzers
seltzogene
seltzogenes
selva
selvage
selvaged
selvagee
selvagees

Literary usage of Selsyn

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. TransactionsElectric engineering (1869)
"Jewell, Faus 314-17 1942 selsyn Generator-Control Transformer System, Electrical Accuracy of. ... 1118 1946 selsyn System, Analysis and Design of a DC. ..."

2. Abstracts of Gloucestershire Inquisitiones Post Mortem Returned Into the by William Phillimore Watts Phillimore, George S. Fry, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1899)
"... by virtue of his Office, after the death of M tiranni selsyn, widow, ... who say that Margaret selsyn was seised of 2 messuages, 2 gardens, ..."

3. The Minor Poems of the Vernon Ms. ...: (with a Few from the Digby Mss. 2 and by Carl Horstmann, Frederick James Furnivall (1892)
"... made mire ili M all Folk mufit rome to Uell. fee selsyn bed de Adam fo To wonen in bliese enere and О. In Muche ..."

4. Cursor Mundi: (The Cursur O the World). A Northumbrian Poem of the XIVth by Hugo Carl Wilhelm Haenisch, Heinrich Hupe, Max Kaluza (1874)
"... shal be fin Of him shal fou soone haue selsyn To his bihoue Ife sou^t In sely tyme & wif me ..."

5. An Introduction to the Law, Relative to Trials at Nisi Prius by Francis Buller, Richard Whalley Bridgman (1817)
"... a loss to conjecture : Mr. selsyn, were not so to be sometimes, complete . in referring to the above case in justice could not be done to the pa. ..."

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