shunt-wound

Variant of shunt winding

shunt winding definition

shunt winding

the winding of an electric motor or generator in such a way that the field and armature circuits are connected in parallel

Related Forms:

  • shunt-wound shunt′·-wound′ (-wo̵und′) adjective

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