MEANING
A rotating contact assembly that switches current connections in certain electrical machines.
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- motor commutator
- commutator brush
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A worn brush sparked against the commutator.
The technician cleaned the motor’s commutator.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular commutator; plural commutators. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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