Word Meanings - ELECTROMOTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mover or exciter of electricity; as apparatus for generating a current of electricity.

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• MOVER
  1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These
• GENERATIVE
  Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing. "That generative particle." Bentley.
• 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
• GENERATION
  The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface
• CURRENTNESS
  1. The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception. 2. Easiness of pronunciation; fluency. When currentness with staidness, how can the language . . . sound other than most full of sweetness Camden.
• CURRENT
  of curre, corre, F. courre, courir, to run, from L. currere; perh. 1. Running or moving rapidly. Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord. Gower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.
• CURRENTLY
  In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currently believed.
• APPARATUS
  A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus. (more info) 1. Things provided as means to some end. 2. Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or
• GENERATRIX
  That which generates; the point, or the mathematical magnitude, which, by its motion, generates another magnitude, as a line, surface, or solid; -- called also describent.
• GENERATOR
  The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- called also generating tone. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces. 2. An apparatus in which
• GENERATE
  To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order. (more info) 1. To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own
• EXCITER
  One who, or that which, excites. Hope is the grand exciter of industry. Dr. H. More.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• JAPAN CURRENT
  A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion
• PHASING CURRENT
  The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.
• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
• RETROGENERATIVE
  Begetting young by retrocopulation.
• PYROELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.
• PERCURRENT
  Running through the entire length.
• INGENERATION
  Act of ingenerating.
• UNREGENERATION
  Unregeneracy.
• REGENERATOR
  A device used in connection with hot-air engines, gas-burning furnaces, etc., in which the incoming air or gas is heated by being brought into contact with masses of iron, brick, etc., which have been previously heated by the outgoing, or escaping,
• DEGENERATION
  That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver. (more info) 1. The act or state of growing worse,
• SNEAK CURRENT
  A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.
• PHOTO-ELECTRICITY
  Electricity produced by light.
• OSCILLATING CURRENT
  A current alternating in direction.
• TURBOGENERATOR
  An electric generator or dynamo which is combined on one frame with a turbomotor, by which it is driven.
• NONRECURRENT
  Not recurring.
• DEGENERATE
  Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low. Faint-hearted and degenerate king. Shak. A degenerate and degraded state. Milton. Degenerate
• THERMOCURRENT
  A current, as of electricity, developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat.
• PROGENERATION
  The act of begetting; propagation.