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Six example sentences with rectifier, each labelled with its topic.
Inside the phone charger a rectifier turns the wall's back-and-forth supply into the steady one-way flow the battery needs.
Technology
Vintage amplifiers used a valve rectifier, and players swear the slight sag it produced gave the tone its bounce.
Music
Early radio sets needed a rectifier before the signal could drive a loudspeaker, and the glass tubes glowed warm orange.
History
A wind turbine's converter starts with a rectifier, turning the generator's wobbling output into direct current before it goes anywhere.
Environment
Electric locomotives carry a rectifier the size of a wardrobe, feeding the overhead line's alternating supply to direct current motors.
Travel
The physics class built a rectifier from four diodes and watched the oscilloscope's wave lose its bottom half.
Science
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