Word Meanings - ELECTRO-MOTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.

Related words: (words related to ELECTRO-MOTION)

• METALOGICAL
  Beyond the scope or province of logic.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• 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
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• 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.
• METALLIFORM
  Having the form or structure of a metal.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• METALLIFACTURE
  The production and working or manufacture of metals. R. Park.
• METALLOGRAPH
  A print made by metallography.
• METALLINE
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a metal; metallic; as, metalline properties. Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water.
• 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.
• CIRCUITY
  A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding.
• 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.
• ACTIONABLE
  That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
• METALLOGRAPHIC
  Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• PYROELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• BIMETALLIST
  An advocate of bimetallism.
• REDACTION
  The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
• CHYLIFACTION
  The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
• 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.
• FACTION
  One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in