bell notificationshomepageloginedit profileclubsdmBox

Search word meanings:

Word Meanings - ELECTRO-TELEGRAPHIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to the electric telegraph, or by means of it.

Related words: (words related to ELECTRO-TELEGRAPHIC)

  • 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

 

Back to top