Word Meanings - POLYPHASER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A machine generating more than one pressure wave; a multiphaser.
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- MACHINER
One who or operates a machine; a machinist. - PRESSURE WIRES
Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points. - GENERATIVE
Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing. "That generative particle." Bentley. - PRESSURE
The action of a force against some obstacle or opposing force; a force in the nature of a thrust, distributed over a surface, often estimated with reference to the upon a unit's area. Atmospheric pressure, Center of pressure, etc. See - 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 - MACHINE
1. In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a - 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. - MACHINERY
1. Machines, in general, or collectively. 2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch. 3. The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to - 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 - GRAMME MACHINE
A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight. - BURRING MACHINE
A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances. - RETROGENERATIVE
Begetting young by retrocopulation. - INGENERATION
Act of ingenerating. - UNREGENERATION
Unregeneracy. - GLIDING MACHINE
A construction consisting essentially of one or more aƫroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground. - 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, - TURBOGENERATOR
An electric generator or dynamo which is combined on one frame with a turbomotor, by which it is driven. - 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 - PROGENERATION
The act of begetting; propagation. - WALLERIAN DEGENERATION
A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; -- so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850. - EXPRESSURE
The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation. An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. Shak. - INGENERATE
Generated within; inborn; innate; as, ingenerate powers of body. W. Wotton. Those virtues were rather feigned and affected . . . than true qualities ingenerate in his judgment. Bacon. - OPPRESSURE
Oppression. - MOTOR GENERATOR
The combination consisting of a generator and a driving motor mechanically connected, usually on a common bedplate and with the two shafts directly coupled or combined into a single shaft. - INDUCTION GENERATOR
A machine built as an induction motor and driven above synchronous speed, thus acting as an alternating-current generator; - - called also asynchronous generator. Below synchronism the machine takes in electrical energy and acts as an induction