inductor
/in-ˈdək-tər/ (ame, mw)
inductor — 名詞
1. a circuit component, usually made by winding wire into a coil, that stores energ
電感器
電路中儲存磁場能量的元件
a circuit component, usually made by winding wire into a coil, that stores energy in a magnetic field whenever electric current flows through it and resists sudden changes in that current.
Stefan replaced a burnt-out inductor on the motherboard with a soldering iron.
Stefan 用烙鐵把主機板上一顆燒壞的電感器換掉了。
collocation: replace / install an inductor
Power-supply circuits often pair a capacitor with an inductor to smooth out voltage spikes.
電源電路常常把電容和電感器配在一起，用來把電壓的突波壓平。
collocation: pair a capacitor with an inductor
Putri wound copper wire around a ferrite core to make a small inductor.
Putri 把銅線繞在一塊鐵氧體磁芯上，做出了一顆小電感器。
The engineer measured the inductor's value in millihenries before adding it to the audio filter.
工程師先量出這顆電感器的值是多少毫亨，才把它接進音響的濾波電路裡。
When the switch closed, current through the inductor rose slowly instead of jumping at once.
開關一閉合，流過電感器的電流不是瞬間跳上來，而是慢慢往上升。
- capacitor
the complementary passive component — stores energy in an electric field instead of a magnetic one
文法句型
an inductor in a circuit
the inductor stores energy
用法筆記
Subject is typically a circuit, board, or filter; the inductor is named alongside other passive parts (resistor, capacitor). Standard unit is the henry (H), often expressed as millihenries (mH) or microhenries (µH).
常見錯誤
2. a person who formally brings someone into a club, society, or honour at an offic
引介人
在儀式上正式接納新成員的人
a person who formally brings someone into a club, society, or honour at an official ceremony, usually by speaking the words that mark the new member's admission.
Coach Romi served as the inductor when three players entered the hall of fame.
三位球員入選名人堂的時候，由 Romi 教練擔任引介人。
pattern: serve as the inductor when [people] enter [honour]
The bishop, acting as inductor, placed a stole around the new priest's shoulders.
主教以主禮人的身分，把聖帶披到新任神父的肩上。
collocation: acting as inductor
Talia asked her old mentor to be the inductor at her swearing-in next month.
Talia 拜託她以前的指導老師下個月在她的宣誓典禮上當引介人。
Each year a senior judge is chosen as inductor for the new bar members.
每年都會挑一位資深法官，擔任新進律師公會成員的引介人。
- inductee
the person being inducted, not the one performing the induction
文法句型
the inductor of [person] into [group]
serve as inductor
用法筆記
Distinguish from sense 1 by context: this sense names a person at a ceremony; sense 1 names an electronic component. The act they perform is called an 'induction'.
常見錯誤
3. in a growing embryo, a small group of cells that releases chemical signals telli
誘導者
胚胎中引導鄰近細胞分化的細胞群
in a growing embryo, a small group of cells that releases chemical signals telling neighbouring cells what kind of tissue or organ they should become — for example, the cells that direct an eye lens to form.
Jisoo's lab studied how a tiny cluster of cells acts as an inductor in eye development.
Jisoo 的實驗室在研究眼睛發育時，一小群細胞是怎麼擔任誘導者的角色。
pattern shown: act as an inductor during [organ] development
Without the inductor, surrounding cells failed to form a neural tube in the chick embryo.
少了這個誘導者，雞胚胎中周圍的細胞就無法形成神經管。
pattern: without the inductor, surrounding cells fail to form [tissue]
Kofi removed the inductor tissue from one side of the frog embryo.
Kofi 從青蛙胚胎的一側把誘導者組織拿掉了。
Grafted onto a different region, the inductor caused a second spine to form.
把這個誘導者移植到別的部位後，竟然又長出了第二條脊椎。
- organizer
older Spemann-era term for the same kind of signalling region; still widely used
- signalling centre
modern textbook synonym; emphasises the molecular signalling role
文法句型
the inductor signals nearby cells
act as an inductor
用法筆記
Often used together with the word 'organizer' (Spemann's organizer is the classic example). Subject is usually a small named region of an embryo; objects of its signalling are nearby cells, not distant ones.