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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) commutator
a device for reversing the direction of a current.

2. commutator
(in a DC motor or generator) a ring or disk assembly that works to change the frequency or direction of current in the armature windings.

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Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) commutator
switch for reversing the direction of an electric current

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Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) commutator
a piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction

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The Standard Electrical Dictionary

1. commutator
In general an apparatus for changing. It is used on electric current generators, and motors, and on induction coils, and elsewhere, for changing the direction of currents, and is of a great variety of types.

Synonym--Commuter (but little used).

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