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Word Meanings - HENRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampère a second.

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  • SECOND
    1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity,
  • ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
    Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
  • INDUCER
    One who, or that which, induces or incites.
  • ELECTROTYPER
    One who electrotypes.
  • WHILES
    1. Meanwhile; meantime. The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour. Sir. W. Scott. 2. sometimes; at times. Sir W. Scott. The whiles. See under While, n.
  • ELECTRO-DYNAMIC; ELECTRO-DYNAMICAL
    Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.
  • ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY
    The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
  • ELECTRONIC
    Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
  • ELECTRO-BIOLOGIST
    One versed in electro-biology.
  • WHILERE
    A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile. Helpeth me now as I did you whilere. Chaucer. He who, with all heaven's heraldry, whilere Entered the world. Milton.
  • CIRCUITOUS
    Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n. Syn. -- Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine.
  • ELECTROLOGY
    That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties.
  • ELECTRICIAN
    An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
  • ELECTRO-CHRONOGRAPH
    An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph.
  • ELECTROTYPE
    A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively. Note: The face of an electrotype consists of a shell of copper, silver, or the like, produced by the action
  • ELECTRO-GILDING
    The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.
  • ELECTRO-POLAR
    Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor.
  • ELECTROTONIZE
    To cause or produce electrotonus.
  • CURRENT
    1. A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current
  • INDUCTORIUM
    An induction coil.
  • FORCE
    To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
  • WHILE
    wigl, G. weile, OHG. wila, hwila, hwil, Icel. hvila a bed, hvild rest, Sw. hvila, Dan. hvile, Goth. hweila a time, and probably to L. 1. Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent. "All
  • ANELECTRIC
    Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
  • DIRECT CURRENT
    A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
  • JAPAN CURRENT
    A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion
  • REINFORCEMENT
    See REëNFORCEMENT
  • PHASING CURRENT
    The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.
  • ALTERNATING CURRENT
    A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
  • DEFORCEOR
    See DEFORCIANT
  • PYROELECTRICITY
    Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.
  • PERCURRENT
    Running through the entire length.

 

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