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Definition of Winding

Winding The material, as wire or rope, wound or coiled about anything, or a single round or turn of the material; a series winding, or one in which the armature coil, the field-magnet coil, and the external circuit form a continuous conductor; a shunt winding, or one of such a character that the armature current is divided, a portion of the current being led around the field-magnet coils. of Wind of Wind of Wind A call by the boatswain's whistle. Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous. A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream. A line- or ribbon-shaped material (as wire, string, or bandaging) wound around an object; as, the windings (conducting wires) wound around the armature of an electric motor or generator. Related Definitions: About, An, And, Anything, Armature, Around, As, Bandaging, Being, Bend, Boatswain, By, Call, Character, Circuit, Circuitous, Coil, Coiled, Conducting, Conductor, Continuous, Current, Curve, Direct, Divided, Electric, Even, External, Flexure, Form, From, Generator, In, Is, Led, Line, Material, Meander, Motor, Object, Of, One, Or, Portion, Road, Rope, Round, Series, Shunt, Single, Stream, String, Such, Surface, That, The, Turn, Turning, Twisting, Which, Whistle, Wind, Winding, Wire, Wound, Wires

Winding Quotations He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. William Shakespeare May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. Edward Abbey For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water. Chief Joseph The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. Henry Ellis But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun. Cesar Romero

Winding Translations winding in French is bobinage winding in Swedish is slingrande, spiral

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