Word Meanings - ELECTREPETER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.
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- INSTRUMENTAL
Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental - CHANGEFUL
Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n. - ELECTRICIAN
An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity. - CHANGEABLY
In a changeable manner. - INSTRUMENTALITY
The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense - ELECTRIC
A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity. - INSTRUMENTATION
1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical - CHANGE
1. To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance. Therefore will I change their glory into shame. Hosea. iv. 7. 2. To alter by - INSTRUMENTALLY
1. By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end. South. They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke. 2. With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied. Mason. - INSTRUMENT
A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a deed, contract, writ, etc. Burrill. 4. One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium, - 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 - COMMUTATOR
A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction. - DIRECTION
The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object. Wilhelm. Syn. -- Administration; guidance; management; superintendence; - INSTRUMENTALISM
The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n. Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these - CHANGEABLE
1. Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor. 2. Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk. Syn. -- Mutable; alterable; - INSTRUMENTALIST
One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist. - CHANGER
1. One who changes or alters the form of anything. 2. One who deals in or changes money. John ii. 14. 3. One apt to change; an inconstant person. - ELECTRICALNESS
The state or quality of being electrical. - INSTRUMENTALNESS
Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality. Hammond. - 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 - ANELECTRIC
Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n. - REEXCHANGE
To exchange anew; to reverse . - PYROELECTRICITY
Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed. - EXCHANGE EDITOR
An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication. - COUNTERCHANGED
Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure. (more info) - IDIOELECTRIC
Electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties; capable of becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to anelectric. -- n. - COUNTERCHANGE
1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange. 2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson. - 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. - INTERCHANGEABILITY
The state or quality of being interchangeable; interchangeableness. - 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 - ARCHANGELIC
Of or pertaining to archangels; of the nature of, or resembling, an archangel. Milton. - 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. - INCHANGEABILITY
Unchangeableness. Kenrick.