Word Meanings - THERMOBATTERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A thermoelectric battery; a thermopile.

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.
THERMOELECTRICITY
Electricity developed in the action of heat. See the Note under Electricity.
THERMOELECTRIC
Pertaining to thermoelectricity; as, thermoelectric currents.
THERMOPILE
An instrument of extreme sensibility, used to determine slight differences and degrees of heat. It is composed of alternate bars of antimony and bismuth, or any two metals having different capacities for the conduction of heat, connected with an
BATTERY
The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him. Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or
BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
See BURNER
THERMOBATTERY
A thermoelectric battery; a thermopile.
WATER BATTERY
A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water.