Alternator is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 428 anagrams from letters in alternator (aaelnorrtt).
First recorded in 1890-95; alternate + -or2
The other appears to have in it a resistance and a battery (or else an alternator).
When the ends of the coil are connected to the terminals of an alternator the disc is set in rotation.
The alternator began to buzz and spark, crackling viciously.
I was up here—loading the condenser—when you cut me off from the alternator.
Each vertical row comprises the measuring instruments for an alternator.
In the illustration the alternator panels are shown at the left and the feeder panels at the right.
For the alternator panels, instruments of the vertical edgewise type are used.
The roar of the alternator died down, first to a hum and then to a purr.
In some cases an alternator is used in place of the battery B, Fig. 4, and when this is done the break M can be dispensed with.
Even when making such observations with an alternator one is apt to be mistaken.