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induction coil

an apparatus made up of two magnetically coupled coils in a circuit in which interruptions of the direct-current supply to one coil produce a high-voltage alternating current in the other

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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