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REACTIVE POWER

Specialty Definition: REACTIVE POWER

DomainDefinition

Electrical Engineering

An imaginary part of the complex power. Source: European Union. (references)

Energy

The electrical power that oscillates between the magnetic field of an inductor and the electrical field of a capacitor. Reactive power is never converted to non-electrical power. Calculated as the square root of the difference between the square of the kilovolt-amperes and the square of the kilowatts. Expressed as reactive volt-amperes. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: REACTIVE POWER

Specialty definitions using "REACTIVE POWER": POOLCO, POWER POOL. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: REACTIVE POWER

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

reactive power

13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: REACTIVE POWER

Language Translations for "REACTIVE POWER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

reaktiv effekt (idle power, wattless power), reaktionsenergi, tomgangsydelse (idle power, wattless power). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

reactief vermogen (idle power, wattless power), wattloos vermogen, blindvermogen (idle power, wattless power), blind vermogen. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

loisteho (idle power, wattless power). (various references)

   

French

  

puissance réactive électrique, puissance réactive, puissance déwattée, puissance apparente, énergie réactive. (various references)

   

German

  

Reaktionsenergie, Blindleistung (idle power, wattless power). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ενέργεια αντίδρασης, άεργος ισχύς (idle power, wattless power), τυφλή απόδοση (idle power, wattless power). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

meddő teljesítmény. (various references)

   

Italian

  

potenza reattiva (idle power, wattless power), energia reattiva. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eactiveray owerpay

   

Portuguese

  

potência reactiva (idle power, wattless power), força reactiva (idle power, wattless power). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

potencia reactiva (idle power, wattless power), potencia aparente (apparent power, idle power, wattless power), energía reactiva. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

reaktiv effekt (idle power, wattless power). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: REACTIVE POWER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-i-o-p-r-r-t-v-w"

-2 letters: procreative.

-3 letters: recreative.

-4 letters: evaporite, operative, overeater, overprice, overreact, overwater, overwrite, perceiver, prereview, previewer, privateer, proactive, procreate, receptive, reoperate.

-5 letters: airpower, cavorter, creative, creepier, earpiece, erective, operatic, orective, overpert, overrate, overripe, overtire, overwear, perceive, perorate, pewterer, portiere, preerect, priorate, privater, reactive, recarpet, receiver, receptor, recreate, repartee, repeater, reprieve, rerepeat, rereview, retrieve, reviewer, toepiece, towerier.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: REACTIVE POWER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 45 41 43 54 49 56 45      50 4F 57 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01000101 01000001 01000011 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101 00100000 01010000 01001111 01010111 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#65 &#67 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#69 &#32 &#80 &#79 &#87 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0041 0043 0054 0049 0056 0045      0050 004F 0057 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

523935375443563925049573952

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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