induction generator

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induction generator - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Induction generator \In*duc"tion gen"er*a`tor\
     A machine built as an induction motor and driven above
     synchronous speed, thus acting as an alternating-current
     generator; -- called also asynchronous generator. Below
     synchronism the machine takes in electrical energy and acts
     as an induction motor; at synchronism the power component of
     current becomes zero and changes sign, so that above
     synchronism the machine (driven for this purpose by
     mechanical power) gives out electrical energy as a generator.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]