Coil is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like spiral or whorl. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Coil in a sentence
Related words
Coil meaning
- Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
- Any intrauterine device (abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
- A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
Synonyms of Coil
Using Coil
- The main meaning on this page is: Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral. | Any intrauterine device (abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped. | A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
- Useful related words include: spiral, whorl, roll, curl.
- In the example corpus, coil often appears in combinations such as: the coil, coil and, coil is.
Context around Coil
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 9 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Coil
- In this selection, "coil" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, steel, tank, fan, turns, pickups and moving stand out and add context to how "coil" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1 steel coil 2 road and a fan coil is a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "coil" sits close to words such as bacterial, barrow and caregivers, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with coil
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Modern 2-coil systems use a single secondary coil. (9 words)
As the coil moves through the magnetic field, a voltage is induced across the coil. (15 words)
As the magnet moves with respect to the coil, the magnetic flux linkage of the coil changes. (17 words)
The Lancers’ only major threat came in the bottom of the first when, after two were out, they got runners to first and third on a walk to first baseman Destiny Coil, a single up the middle by third baseman Morgan Miller, and a steal of third by Coil. (49 words)
Inductors Tank inductor in a tuned circuit in a shortwave radio transmitter main Inductors or reactors are coils which generate a magnetic field which interacts with the coil itself, to induce a back EMF which opposes changes in current through the coil. (42 words)
High Q tank coil in a shortwave transmitter render * Dielectric losses: The high frequency electric field near the conductors in a tank coil can cause the motion of polar molecules in nearby insulating materials, dissipating energy as heat. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
At the center of the coil, where the compass needle is located, the coil's field is perpendicular to the plane of the coil.
Turning the shaft rotates the coil, moving the contact wheel up or down the coil, allowing more or fewer turns of the coil into the circuit, to change the inductance.
Meanwhile, Indian Railways has come up with a wagon design for new traffic streams, which includes bulk, cement and fly ash transportation, steel coil 1, steel coil 2, road railers, parcel wagon.
A Fan Coil is a simple device consisting of a heating and or cooling heat exchanger or 'coil' and fan.
The Lancers’ only major threat came in the bottom of the first when, after two were out, they got runners to first and third on a walk to first baseman Destiny Coil, a single up the middle by third baseman Morgan Miller, and a steal of third by Coil.
A pulse to one coil turns the relay on and a pulse to the opposite coil turns the relay off.
As the coil moves through the magnetic field, a voltage is induced across the coil.
As the current flows from + through the coil (the orange part) to −, a magnetic field is generated in the coil.
As the magnet moves with respect to the coil, the magnetic flux linkage of the coil changes.
A time varying current in one coil (called the primary winding ) generates a magnetic field which induces a voltage in the other coil (called the secondary winding ).
Because an air conditioner moves heat between the indoor coil and the outdoor coil, both must be kept clean.
By adding a " magnetic core " made of a ferromagnetic material like iron inside the coil, the magnetizing field from the coil will induce magnetization in the material, increasing the magnetic flux.
Calculation of stored energy The magnetic energy stored by a coil carrying a current is given by one half of the inductance of the coil times the square of the current.
Dual-coil pickups sound warm, thick, perhaps even muddy; single-coil pickups sound clear, bright, perhaps even biting.
Each turn of the coil is at a slightly different potential, so the electric field between neighboring turns stores charge on the wire, so the coil acts as if it has a capacitor in parallel with it.
Head stack with an actuator coil on the left and read/write heads on the right The actuator is a permanent magnet and moving coil motor that swings the heads to the desired position.
High Q tank coil in a shortwave transmitter render * Dielectric losses: The high frequency electric field near the conductors in a tank coil can cause the motion of polar molecules in nearby insulating materials, dissipating energy as heat.
Inductors Tank inductor in a tuned circuit in a shortwave radio transmitter main Inductors or reactors are coils which generate a magnetic field which interacts with the coil itself, to induce a back EMF which opposes changes in current through the coil.
Light bulb (bottom) powered wirelessly by "receiver" coil tuned to resonance with the huge "magnifying transmitter" coil at Tesla's Colorado Springs lab, 1899.
Modern 2-coil systems use a single secondary coil.
Common combinations with coil
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the coil 44×
- coil and 14×
- coil is 13×
- tesla coil 10×
- of coil 10×
- coil of 9×
- mortal coil 8×
- moving coil 7×
- coil the 5×
- coil on 5×