primary coil

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primary coil - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  primary coil
      n 1: coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that
           changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring
           circuit; "current through the primary coil induces current
           in the secondary coil" [syn: primary coil, primary winding
           , primary]