| Library / English Dictionary |
COMMUTATE
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they commutate ... he / she / it commutates
Past simple: commutated
Past participle: commutated
-ing form: commutating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "commutate" is one way to...):
change by reversal; reverse; turn (change to the contrary)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
commutative ((of a binary operation) independent of order; as in e.g.)
commutator (switch for reversing the direction of an electric current)
