Definition of Step-up transformer

1. Noun. A transformer that increases voltage.

Specialized synonyms: Cascade Transformer
Generic synonyms: Transformer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Step-up Transformer

step-fathers
step-in
step-ins
step-nephew
step-nephews
step-niece
step-nieces
step-sibling
step-siblings
step-through
step-throughs
step-thru
step-uncle
step-uncles
step-up
step-up transformer (current term)
step aerobics
step aside
step back
step by step
step change
step changes
step chart
step dance
step dancing
step down
step flashing
step foot
step forward
step function

Literary usage of Step-up transformer

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

1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1903)
"De Forest was the first to use the alternating current and " step up " transformer, which is now known to have been used by Marconi in his long-distance ..."

2. A Dictionary of Electrical Words, Terms and Phrases by Edwin James Houston (1903)
"The term step-up transformer is used in contradistinction to the step-down ... The old form of Ruhmkorff coil is an example of a step-up transformer. ..."

3. Electrical Engineer (1892)
"3. ,, „ t>i 'j» and 6a for step-up transformer B primary ,, ., ,;>,,p and .p for step-up transformer B ... o-3 „ ,, 6-3 The B step-up transformer coil ..."

4. Cassier's Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02877163] (1901)
"... SWITCHES IN THE step-up transformer PLANT the night watches the operator uses his spare time in making up from the records of the switchboard attendants ..."

5. Electrical Engineer (1891)
"This is obviously due to the fact that the change ratio of the step-up transformer is altered by the very act of putting it into connection with the ..."

6. The International Journal of Orthodontia (1917)
"... the rotary converter is set in motion and generates an alternating current which is sent through the primary of the step- up transformer. ..."

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