Word Meanings - RHEOMOTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any apparatus by which an electrical current is originated.

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• CURRENT
  1. A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ORIGINATION
  1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca
• ORIGINATOR
  One who originates.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• ORIGINATE
  To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new. A decomposition of the whole civill and political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order. Burke.
• 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.
• ELECTRICALNESS
  The state or quality of being electrical.
• 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
• ELECTRICALLY
  In the manner of electricity, or by means of it; thrillingly.
• ORIGINATIVE
  Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating. H. Bushnell. -- O*rig"i*na*tive*ly, adv.
• 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.
• PERCURRENT
  Running through the entire length.
• 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.
• OSCILLATING CURRENT
  A current alternating in direction.
• NONRECURRENT
  Not recurring.
• THERMOCURRENT
  A current, as of electricity, developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat.
• FOUCAULT CURRENT
  An eddy current.
• EXCURRENT
  Running or extending out; as, an excurrent midrib, one which projects beyond the apex of a leaf; an excurrent steam or trunk, one which continues to the top. (more info) 1. Running or flowing out; as:
• UNORIGINATELY
  Without origin.
• INTERCURRENT
  1. Running between or among; intervening. Boyle. Bp. Fell. Not belonging to any particular season. Said of diseases occurring in the course of another disease. Dunglison.
• MAGNETO-ELECTRIC; MAGNETO-ELECTRICAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, electricity by the action of magnets; as, magneto-electric induction. Magneto-electric machine, a form of dynamo-electric machine in which the field is maintained by permanent steel magnets instead of
• DISCURRENT
  Not current or free to circulate; not in use. Sir E. Sandys.