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.

Related words: (words related to OSCILLATOR)

• 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.
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• SYSTEMLESS
  Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system.
• 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.