Word Meanings - OSCILLATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Any device for producing electric oscillations; esp., an apparatus for generating electric waves in a system of wireless telegraphy. An instrument for measuring rigidity by the torsional oscillations of a weighted wire.
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- PRODUCIBILITY
The quality or state of being producible. Barrow. - TORSIONAL
Of or pertaining to torsion; resulting from torsion, or the force with which a thread or wire returns to a state of rest after having been twisted round its axis; as, torsional force. - SYSTEMATIZE
To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine - 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 - WAVESON
Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea. - ELECTRICIAN
An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity. - MEASURING
Used in, or adapted for, ascertaining measurements, or dividing by measure. Measuring faucet, a faucet which permits only a given quantity of liquid to pass each time it is opened, or one by means of which the liquid which passes can be measured. - PRODUCEMENT
Production. - SYSTEMLESS
Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system. - WEIGHTINESS
The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness. - WEIGHTILY
In a weighty manner. - SYSTEMIZATION
The act or process of systematizing; systematization. - MEASURER
One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market. - SYSTEMATISM
The reduction of facts or principles to a system. Dunglison. - DEVICEFUL
Full of devices; inventive. A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman. - SYSTEMATIST
1. One who forms a system, or reduces to system. 2. One who adheres to a system. - PRODUCTIVITY
The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge. - MEASURABLE
1. Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation. 2. Moderate; temperate; not excessive. Of his diet measurable was he. Chaucer. -- Meas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Meas"ur*a*bly, adv. Yet do it measurably, as it becometh - PRODUCTUS
An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks. - 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 - ANELECTRIC
Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n. - COUNTER WEIGHT
A counterpoise. - BERTILLON SYSTEM
A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc. - CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British - RETROGENERATIVE
Begetting young by retrocopulation. - IMMEASURABLY
In an immeasurable manner or degree. "Immeasurably distant." Wordsworth. - PYROELECTRICITY
Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed. - WELTERWEIGHT
1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that - IMMEASURED
Immeasurable. Spenser. - INGENERATION
Act of ingenerating. - CHAUTAUQUA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent. - ADMEASURE
To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone. 2. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size. (more info) 1. To measure.