: any of several alternating-current motors in which the torque is produced by the reaction between a varying or rotating magnetic field that is generated in stationary field magnets and the current that is induced in the coils or circuits of the rotor
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a type of electric motor in which alternating current from a power source is fed through a primary winding and induces a current in a secondary winding, with the parts arranged so that the resulting magnetic field causes a movable rotor to rotate with respect to a fixed stator. Cf. linear induction motor.
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induction motor noun
An electric motor in which currents in the primary winding set up an electromagnetic flux which induces currents in the secondary winding, interaction of these currents with the flux producing rotation
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Main Entry: ↑induct
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induction motor,
the commonest type of electric motor, in which alternating current supplied to a coil produces a rotating electromagnetic field inducing a similar field in the armature that causes it to rotate.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.