Word Meanings - DYNAMO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A dynamo-electric machine.

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• DYNAMO
  A dynamo-electric machine.
• DYNAMOMETRY
  The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• DYNAMOMETER
  An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery. Note: It usually embodies a spring to be compressed or weight to be sustained by
• ELECTRICIAN
  An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
• DYNAMO-ELECTRIC
  Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.
• ELECTRIC
  A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.
• ELECTRICITY
  1. A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direction in which involves polarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by
• DYNAMOGRAPH
  A dynamometer to which is attached a device for automatically registering muscular power.
• ELECTRICALNESS
  The state or quality of being electrical.
• DYNAMOMETRIC; DYNAMOMETRICAL
  Relating to a dynamometer, or to the measurement of force doing work; as, dynamometrical instruments.
• ELECTRIC; ELECTRICAL
  metal, Gr. arc to beam, shine: cf. F. électrique. The name came from 1. Pertaining to electricity; consisting of, containing, derived from, or produced by, electricity; as, electric power or virtue; an electric jar; electric effects; an electric
• ELECTRICALLY
  In the manner of electricity, or by means of it; thrillingly.
• MACHINE
  1. In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a
• MACHINERY
  1. Machines, in general, or collectively. 2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch. 3. The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• ANELECTRIC
  Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• PYROELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.
• SERIES DYNAMO
  A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
• HEMADYNAMOMETER
  An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a hæmomanometer.
• IDIOELECTRIC
  Electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties; capable of becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to anelectric. -- n.
• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
• THERMOELECTRIC COUPLE; THERMOELECTRIC PAIR
  A union of two conductors, as bars or wires of dissimilar metals joined at their extremities, for producing a thermoelectric current.
• DIDYNAMOUS
  Of or pertaining to the Didynamia; containing four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.
• PHOTO-ELECTRICITY
  Electricity produced by light.
• HYDRO-ELECTRIC
  Pertaining to, employed in, or produced by, the evolution of electricity by means of a battery in which water or steam is used. Hydro-electric machine , an apparatus invented by Sir William Armstrong of England for generating electricity by the
• SPLIT DYNAMOMETER
  An electric dynamometer having two coils so arranged that one carries the primary current, and the other the secondary current, of a transformer.