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回転変流機 (かいてんへんりゅうき) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

回かい転てん変へん流りゅう機き

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Meanings

1

rotary converter

Technical term in electrical engineering for a rotating machine that converts AC to DC or vice versa.

この工こう場じょうでは、回かい転てん変へん流りゅう機きを使つかって交こう流りゅうを

直ちょく

流りゅう

に

変へん

換かん

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て

いる

。

In this factory, a rotary converter is used to convert AC to DC.

Kanji

回-times, round, game
転revolve, turn around, change
変unusual, change, strange
流current, a sink, flow
機loom, mechanism, machine

Etymology

Compound of 回転 (rotation) + 変流 (current conversion) + 機 (machine). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the term is a straightforward technical coinage.