Word Meanings - SHUNTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Switching; as, shunting engine, yard, etc. Arbitrage conducted between certain local markets without the necessity of the exchange involved in foreign arbitrage.
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- ENGINER
A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. Shak. - ENGINERY
1. The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. Milton. 2. Engines, in general; instruments of war. Training his devilish enginery. Milton. 3. Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. Shenstone. - INVOLVEDNESS
The state of being involved. - EXCHANGE EDITOR
An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication. - MARKETSTEAD
A market place. Drayton. - FOREIGNER
A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham. - FOREIGNNESS
The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot. - WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak. - WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer. - CONDUCTIVITY
The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity , the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces - SHUNT WINDING
A winding so arranged as to divide the armature current and lead a portion of it around the field-magnet coils; -- opposed to series winding. --Shunt"-wound` , a. - EXCHANGEABILITY
The quality or state of being exchangeable. The law ought not be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons. Washington. - LOCALIZE
To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place. H. Spencer. Wordsworth. - SWITCHY
Whisking. Coombe. - LOCALLY
With respect to place; in place; as, to be locally separated or distant. - CERTAINTY
Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth - LOCALITY
The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places. (more info) 1. The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits. It is thought that the soul - ENGINEMAN
A man who manages, or waits on, an engine. - SWITCHEL
A beverage of molasses and water, seasoned with vinegar and ginger. - LOCALIZATION
Act of localizing, or state of being localized. Cerebral localization , the localization of the control of special functions, as of sight or of the various movements of the body, in special regions of the brain. - SAFE-CONDUCT
That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak. - AIR ENGINE
An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. Knight. - ASCERTAINMENT
The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke. - RADIANT ENGINE
A semiradial engine. See Radial engine, above. - ASCERTAINABLE
That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv. - REEXCHANGE
To exchange anew; to reverse . - RADIAL ENGINE
An engine, usually an internal-combustion engine of a certain type having several cylinders arranged radially like the spokes of a complete wheel. The semiradial engine has radiating cylinders on only one side of the crank shaft. - SEMIRADIAL ENGINE
See ABOVE - POINT SWITCH
A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track. - SPLIT SWITCH
= Point switch. - UNCERTAINTY
1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.