Word Meanings - PREELECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To elect beforehand.
Related words: (words related to PREELECT)
- ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it. - ELECTROTYPER
One who electrotypes. - ELECTREPETER
An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator. - ELECTRO-DYNAMIC; ELECTRO-DYNAMICAL
Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force. - ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY
The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge. - ELECTRONIC
Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons. - ELECTRO-BIOLOGIST
One versed in electro-biology. - ELECTORATE
1. The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire. 2. The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate - ELECTRICIAN
An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity. - ELECTROLOGY
That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties. - ELECTRO-CHRONOGRAPH
An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph. - ELECTROTYPE
A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively. Note: The face of an electrotype consists of a shell of copper, silver, or the like, produced by the action - ELECTRO-GILDING
The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity. - ELECTRO-POLAR
Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor. - ELECTROTONIZE
To cause or produce electrotonus. - ELECTRE; ELECTER
1. Amber. See Electrum. 2. A metallic substance compounded of gold and silver; an alloy. Wyclif. - ELECTIVE
1. Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act. 2. Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral. The independent use of their elective franchise. Bancroft. 3. Dependent on choice; bestowed or passing - ELECTRO-DYNAMICS
1. The phenomena of electricity in motion. 2. The branch of science which treats of the properties of electric currents; dynamical electricity. - ELECTROTONUS
The modified condition of a nerve, when a constant current of electricity passes through any part of it. See Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus. - ELECTROGRAPH
A mark, record, or tracing, made by the action of electricity. - ANELECTRIC
Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n. - PYROELECTRICITY
Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed. - IDIOELECTRIC
Electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties; capable of becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to anelectric. -- n. - DYNAMO-ELECTRIC
Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power. - THERMOELECTRIC COUPLE; THERMOELECTRIC PAIR
A union of two conductors, as bars or wires of dissimilar metals joined at their extremities, for producing a thermoelectric current.