Choking coil

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·add. ·- A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase;

— called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.

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