How to Use inductor in a Sentence

inductor

noun
  • Put an inductor inside the Josephson-junction loop, and the voltage pulse drives a current.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024
  • The voltage pulse passes through the inductor, creating a persistent current in the loop.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024
  • The device itself used a diaphragm to pick up sound waves, an inductor coil around an iron core to convert vibrations into an electrical current, and a receiver that reversed the process at the other end.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The lower the frequency, the larger the system’s passive elements—in particular, the inductors and capacitors—need to be.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2017
  • When the frequency resonates with the free radicals’ electron spins, those spins couple with the inductor, altering the frequency of the oscillator, which is detected via a feedback loop.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2026
  • One challenge the minds at PowerLattice faced was how to make inductors smaller without altering their capabilities.
    — Perri Thaler, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2025
  • This also makes supporting components like inductors, transformers, and capacitors much smaller and lighter, a key benefit for aviation.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
  • At higher operating frequencies, circuits can be designed to use an inductor with a much lower inductance, meaning the component itself can be made with less physical material.
    — Perri Thaler, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Each physical qubit consists of two superconducting plates, which act as a capacitor, wired to components called Josephson junctions, which act as a special lossless, nonlinear inductor.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2024
  • To compensate, the new receiver design minimizes the use of PMOS, replacing these transistors with other elements such as inductors that don’t have an oxide layer.
    — Katherine Bourzac, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Past inductions have sometimes but not always included musical collaborations between inductor and inductee — depending, oftentimes, on whether the person doing the honors is a singer or from some other walk of entertainment.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 May 2026
  • PowerLattice designed tiny power-delivery chiplets—shrinking inductors, voltage control circuits, and software-programmable logic into an IC about twice the size of a pencil eraser.
    — Perri Thaler, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Traditional converters rely on inductors.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Apr. 2026
  • One potential solution is the use of power magnetic devices (PMDs), a category of devices that includes motors, generators, transformers, and inductors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Nov. 2017
  • The importance of load independence Traditional WPT systems need inductors and capacitors to have precise component values in a bid to achieve stable operation.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The logic is performed by routing the SFQs through a combination of Josephson-junction loops and inductors to the appropriate outputs, resulting in logical ORs and ANDs.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024

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