Usually means: Electrostatic generator using rotating disks.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wimshurst machine, Wimshurst machine: Merriam-Webster
  2. Wimshurst machine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Wimshurst machine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Wimshurst machine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Wimshurst machine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wimshurst machine: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Wimshurst machine: Dictionary.com
  8. Wimshurst Machine, Wimshurst machine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Wimshurst machine: Rhymezone
  10. wimshurst machine: FreeDictionary.org
  11. wimshurst machine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. Wimshurst machine: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. Wimshurst machine: Wiktionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wimshurst machine: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wimshurst Machine: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Wimshurst machine)

noun:  An electrostatic generator with two large contra-rotating discs mounted in a vertical plane, two crossed bars with metallic brushes, and a spark gap formed by two metal spheres.

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