A shunt motor may be defined as one in which the field coils are wound with many turns of comparatively fine wire, connected in parallel with the brushes.
The comparatively slow speeds of these motors are of importance in that they permit belting or gearing the motors directly to ordinary slow speed line shafting without employing intermediate counter shafting.
The resistance of R is too small to affect appreciably the current in F, which necessarily consists of a comparatively large number of turns of fine wire.
They are used on circuits containing lamps in comparatively small groups, and other light duty service.
They consist of a comparatively small number of segments each of which covers a wide angle, and are separated from each other by air gaps.
The collection of large currents at low voltage, generated by comparativelysmall machines, requires careful design of brushes and brush holders.
Very small series motors may be used with belts since their comparatively large frictional resistance represents an appreciable load, restraining the motor from reaching a dangerous speed.
The result was that when disease attacked him he became an easy prey, and when he passed away it was said that he bore all the marks of a very old man, even though he was comparatively young in years.
Silver wascomparatively a new question; the people did not understand it, and they attended the meetings, listening attentively to the campaign speeches.
With the peculiar rules existing in the Senate, the position of presiding officer is comparatively an easy one.
In a comparatively brief time they have attained to positions of leadership on the Democratic side of the chamber, and since they have become members of this committee they have manifested an unusual grasp of international subjects.
As I walk the streets now it seems that I know comparatively few people; but I have the best of reasons for knowing that among them are many splendid men.
Mr. Stone and Mr. Shively are not only new men on the committee, but both of them are comparatively new to the Senate.
Until 1870 the progress of the company was comparatively slow.
The power-loom was found to be of comparatively little service until the earlier processes of dressing and sizing had been placed on a level of machine development by the efforts of Horrocks and others.
Foreign competition with English textiles, though comparatively modern so far as the more highly developed machine-made fabrics is concerned, was keenly felt early in the century in hand-made goods.
The whole Brigade, it was planned, would advance along the Poelcapelle and Langemarck Roads and deploy in the comparatively unshelled and theoretically passable country beyond.
Further back our big guns were carrying out a sustained bombardment, and in the course of it experimenting with "artillery crashes," at that time a comparatively new form of "frightfulness.
The rooms were large and comparatively undamaged; within a few yards was a German R.
Yet Mad Conway and his Tottie boy did so, and miraculously reached the foot of the beetling precipice, not only alive, but comparatively unhurt.
Probably the writer had no desire to be unjust, or even unfair in the comparatively venial way of doing rather less than justice to the author in his desire to do rather more to the actor.
Make-up has comparatively little to do with the capacity of an actor for differentiating his parts.
Naturally, then, he takes comparatively little pains to prove what to him is axiomatic.
Judging by the public press and the circulars, Mr Shaw is not inaccurate in his view that the army of amateurs does comparatively little service for drama.
Of course there remains the period after the theatre, but it is comparatively brief for the man of whom we are speaking, since after the labours of the day and the fatigue of the evening he is tired enough to be rather anxious for sleep.
Both of them preached the importance of chastity and the beauty of conjugal love and parental and filial affection, and each admired fervently the idea of family--an idea deemed comparatively unimportant in our colonizing country.
It is apparent from the high value set on these mercies that comparatively few convicts could afford their purchase.
The echo of the fierce Lutheran controversies had scarce penetrated into Spain and comparatively little was there known of the debates which were shaking to its centre the venerable structure of the Church.
This did not even require the inquisitor to be an ecclesiastic, except in so far as there were comparatively few letrados of the time who were not in orders.
There were, indeed, comparatively few who did not at first assert their orthodoxy, nor many who did not ultimately yield to the effective methods to obtain confession.
Frequently they were found to be burdened with pensions that had to be recognized, but the process went on and, in comparatively a few years, it would seem that vacancies had occurred in most of the chapters.
Also, if you pass down even the comparatively clean Legation Street, in the wake of the watering-cart, the stench from the stirred-up dust is unbearable.
One other thing must be distinctly borne in mind regarding Bisley in the first half of the sixteenth century; it was comparatively easy of access from London for those who wished to go there.
A dull, listless troop they are, comparatively sombre of plumage, totally devoid of song, and apparently intent only upon the gratification of their appetites.
This nest was three feet above the ground, in a comparatively dry situation, and contained four pure white eggs in an advanced stage of incubation.
Around Charleston, there are comparatively few birds in evidence from November until late February, though individuals may be seen throughout this period.
This warbler is one of the very commonest victims of this parasite, andcomparatively few of its nests are not visited at least once by a cowbird in regions where the latter is very common.
The locations of the two nests were extremely different, one was carefully concealed in a comparatively bare oak sapling, and the other in the dense foliage of a rank-growing young manzanita bush.
Comparatively fewer birds struck the light in spring than in fall.
By November 1, comparatively few remained, and in some years the birds had disappeared.
Sutton (1928) at Pymatuning Swamp "was saddled on a horizontal bough only about twenty-five feet from the ground, in a comparativelysmall hemlock.
It is apparently very rare anywhere in Florida or the Keys, and along the Atlantic coast, where it is comparatively rare, it is found at low elevations.
Slocum, both comparatively young men, but educated and experienced officers, fully competent to their command.
The rebel inner lines are well adapted to our purpose, and with slight modifications can be held by a comparatively small force; and in about ten days I expect to be ready to sally forth again.
Some, however, have made out a fair case for comparativelyrecent changes in surface detail.
A red or M-type star begins its history as a giant of comparatively low temperature.
However, taking general averages, and recalling the comparatively narrow belt of total eclipse, every part of the earth is likely to come within range of the moon's shadow once in about three and a half centuries.
By this means the carbon is burned out, and comparatively pure iron remains.
The love of the things of earth had usurped, in many hearts, the love of the things of heaven, and comparatively few were free from the soul-destroying influence of idolatry.
We believe in another state of existence besides this; and it is not only a belief, but it is a fixed fact, and hence for a man of God to bid adieu to the things of this world is a matter of comparatively very small importance.
The politics have comparatively passed away, but the characters remain; and no slight instruction is still to be derived from the progressive steps by which the individuals rose from private life to public distinction.
To punish the masters for their delinquencies was not enough; greater sacrifices than a few comparatively obscure placemen were demanded by the suitors and wards whose money had been squandered by the fraudulent trustees.
In comparatively recent times there have not been many eminent Englishmen to whom 'tradition's simple tongue' has been more hostile than Queen Elizabeth's Lord Chief Justice, Popham.
Until comparatively recent times, judges were dangerously dependent on the king's favor; for they not only held their offices during the pleasure of the crown, but on dismissal they could not claim a retiring pension.
Describing the state of the inns some two generations later, Blackstone computed the number of law-students at about a thousand, perhaps slightly more; and he observes that in his time the merely nominal law-students were comparatively few.
The propensity of lawyers for the stage, lingered amongst barristers on Circuit, to a comparatively recent date.
But the cases where ladies were daily liable to meet an offensive neighbor on their common staircase were comparatively rare; and when the annoyance actually occurred, the discipline of the Inn afforded a remedy.
Were it not for the dash of superstition he threw here and there into his tales, they would be comparatively of a commonplace description.
On the other hand, a teacher who enjoys the unbounded love of his scholars, may accomplish comparatively little, on account of lacking the other qualities needed for success.
To have a little pleasantry in the school-room, to perpetrate or to join in some witty practical joke, may seem to you comparatively harmless.
In our own country, the same pains have not been taken to collect statistics on this subject, becausecomparatively little controversy about it has existed here to call forth inquiry.
The very best teaching I have ever seen, has been where the teacher said comparatively little.
While the Federal forces had remained comparatively quiet in this part of the Confederacy, they had achieved many important successes elsewhere.
At night this is comparatively easy to do; on many roads it is possible to travel this way, undisturbed, till morning.
The office and sitting-room were comparatively cozy, and the lodgers were respectable so far as dress and general manner were concerned.
Such is the diet of the lazy tramp, and, strange to relate, despite its unwholesomeness and its meagerness, he is a comparatively healthy fellow, as are almost all tramps.
Before the Civil War there werecomparatively few tramps in America, and practically no railroad tramps.
The great majority of youthful travelers on the road are comparativelywell fed, to say the least, and, much as one pities their fate, he will seldom have cause to weep over their starved condition.
The Colonies were vaster andcomparatively more powerful.
They give very little trouble and live oncomparatively nothing.
The tree was an ancient rock maple, its branches large but comparatively few in number.
New York has many large hotels--this is comparatively a small one.
Thank you very much," he repeated, shook their hands once more and did not let go until he thought he saw that they found it hard to bear the comparatively fresh air from the stairway after being so long used to the air in the offices.
Then when he moved the light to the other parts of the picture he found an interment of Christ shown in the usual way, it was also a comparatively new painting.
The moment they got into a less rapid current, which, they knew, led into comparatively still water they ceased rowing, and allowed the punt to float down with it.
But when the chief seated himself in her vicinity, and fell into one of his fits of abstraction, and the whole party became comparatively still and hushed, the poor girl's suspense was almost insufferable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "comparatively" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
