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spark gap

NOUN
  1. a component of an ignition system; consists of two shaped electrodes and the space between them
  2. the gap between two high-potential terminals

How To Use spark gap In A Sentence

  • As the spark gap breaks down it conducts the high voltage charge directly in the high voltage inductor coil which forms the primary circuit of the high voltage Tesla coils.
  • The switches can be used in place of spark gaps, thyratrons and krytrons.
  • The earliest transmissions used spark gaps to make the radio waves, and magnetic detectors, and coherers to detect them.
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