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rheostatic

rheostatic adjective: regulated using a rheostat.

Adjective

rheostatic (comparative more rheostatic, superlative most rheostatic)

  1. Regulated using a rheostat.
    • Rheostatic braking is achieved by excitation of the traction motor fields from a separate step-down transformer, fed from the main transformer under control of the main tap changer. The output of this transformer is fed through the normal power rectifiers. Rheostatic braking is thus controlled by...1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 728–729
  2. Of or pertaining to rheostasis.

Forms of rheostatic

comparativemore rheostatic
superlativemost rheostatic

Origin of rheostatic

From rheostat + -ic and rheostasis + -ic.

Words formed from rheostatic

Questions about rheostatic

What does rheostatic mean?
Rheostatic means regulated using a rheostat.
What part of speech is rheostatic?
Rheostatic is an adjective.

Words near rheostatic in the dictionary

  1. rheoscopes
  2. rheoscopic
  3. rheoscopy
  4. rheostasis
  5. rheostat
  6. rheostatic
  7. rheostatically
  8. rheostats
  9. rheotactic
  10. rheotacting
  11. rheotan

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