Word Meanings - NONELECTRIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A substance that is not an electric; that which transmits electricity, as a metal.
Related words: (words related to NONELECTRIC)
- METALOGICAL
Beyond the scope or province of logic. - SUBSTANCE
To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich. - METALLIC
Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic - ELECTRICIAN
An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity. - METALLIFORM
Having the form or structure of a metal. - METALLIFACTURE
The production and working or manufacture of metals. R. Park. - METALLOGRAPH
A print made by metallography. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - METALLOPHONE
An instrument like a pianoforte, but having metal bars instead of strings. An instrument like the xylophone, but having metallic instead of wooden bars. - METALLICLY
In a metallic manner; by metallic means. - METALLICAL
See METALLIC - METALEPTIC
Of, pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by, metalepsy. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a metalepsis. 2. Transverse; as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle. - METALLOGRAPHIC
Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography. - METALMAN
A worker in metals. - METALLOGRAPHIST
One who writes on the subject of metals. - ELECTRIC
A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - METALLOCHROME
A coloring produced by the deposition of some metallic compound; specifically, the prismatic tints produced by depositing a film of peroxide of lead on polished steel by electricity. - METALLIZATION
The act or process of metallizing. - METALLIFEROUS
Producing metals; yielding metals. - ANELECTRIC
Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n. - PYROELECTRICITY
Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed. - BIMETALLIST
An advocate of bimetallism. - NONMETAL
Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals. - 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. - MONOMETALLIC
Consisting of one metal; of or pertaining to monometallism. - BIMETALLIC
Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency. - SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
The substance of the medullary sheath. - PHOTO-ELECTRICITY
Electricity produced by light. - MONOMETALLISM
The legalized use of one metal only, as gold, or silver, in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of money values. See Bimetallism. - METALLINE
Pertaining to, or resembling, a metal; metallic; as, metalline properties. Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water.