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volt'age divid"er



Elect.
a resistor or series of resistors connected to a voltage source and used to provide voltages that are fractions of that of the source. Also called potential divider, potentiometer.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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