| 单词 | rheostatic braking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrheostatic braking 1. Of, relating to, or involving a rheostat, esp. as employed in a form of braking used in vehicles with electric traction motors, in which the motors are made to act as generators, the resulting power being dissipated in the starting rheostats; esp. in rheostatic brake, rheostatic braking. Cf. regenerative adj. 5. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > devices to retard or stop motion > brake or braking apparatus > types of handbrake1841 rubber1850 air brake1857 disc brake1865 power brake1865 hydraulic brake1874 vacuum-brake1875 rim brake1876 drum brake1882 sand brakea1884 calliper brake1904 rheostatic brake1920 callipers1972 1860 A. V. Newton Brit. Patent 1765 (1861) 2 Instead of employing the process of weaving in the manufacture of the improved rheostat... A kind of rheostatic cloth is obtained. 1920 Whittaker's Electr. Engineer's Pocket-bk. (ed. 4) 563 Electric rheostatic brakes, in which the car motors are converted into generators and are loaded on rheostats, the brake being applied and regulated from the controller. 1931 R. A. Bishop Electr. Trolley Bus v. 118 The rheostatic brake so adjusted as not to overstress the transmission. 1954 A. T. Dover Electr. Traction (ed. 3) viii. 130 For rheostatic braking either of the schemes..are employed. 1993 Mod. Railways July 417/2 When the rheostatic brake is applied, you can hear the fans which cool the braking resistors cutting in. < as lemmas |
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