NOUN
- a component of an ignition system; consists of two shaped electrodes and the space between them
- 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.