Word Meanings - ELECTRO-TELEGRAPHIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to the electric telegraph, or by means of it.
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- ELECTRICIAN
An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity. - TELEGRAPHIC
Of or pertaining to the telegraph; made or communicated by a telegraph; as, telegraphic signals; telegraphic art; telegraphic intelligence. - ELECTRIC
A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity. - TELEGRAPHONE
An instrument for recording and reproducing sound by local magnetization of a steel wire, disk, or ribbon, moved against the pole of a magnet connected electrically with a telephone receiver, or the like. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - 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 - TELEGRAPHER
One who sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a telegraphist. - TELEGRAPHY
The science or art of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as, submarine telegraphy. - TELEGRAPH PLANT
An East Indian tick trefoil , whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes. - TELEGRAPHOSCOPE
An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, ralay, equilibrator, - TELEGRAPHIST
One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher. - ELECTRICALNESS
The state or quality of being electrical. - 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 - TELEGRAPH
An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action. - ELECTRICALLY
In the manner of electricity, or by means of it; thrillingly. - TELEGRAPHICAL
Telegraphic. -- Tel`e*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. - ANELECTRIC
Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n. - PANTELEGRAPH
See TELEGRAPH - PYROELECTRICITY
Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed. - IDIOELECTRIC
Electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties; capable of becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to anelectric. -- n. - DYNAMO-ELECTRIC
Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power. - 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. - PHOTO-ELECTRICITY
Electricity produced by light. - RADIOTELEGRAPHY
Telegraphy using the radiant energy of electrical waves; wireless telegraphy; -- the term adopted for use by the Radiotelegraphic Convention of 1912. - 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 - THERMOELECTRICITY
Electricity developed in the action of heat. See the Note under Electricity. - RESINO-ELECTRIC
Containing or exhibiting resinous electricity. - NONELECTRIC
A substance that is not an electric; that which transmits electricity, as a metal. - MAGNETO-ELECTRIC; MAGNETO-ELECTRICAL
Pertaining to, or characterized by, electricity by the action of magnets; as, magneto-electric induction. Magneto-electric machine, a form of dynamo-electric machine in which the field is maintained by permanent steel magnets instead of