Word Meanings - THERMOCOUPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A thermoelectric couple.

Related words: (words related to THERMOCOUPLE)

• COUPLE
  See COUPLE-CLOSE (more info) 1. That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler. It is in some sort with friends as it is with dogs in couples; they should be of the same size
• 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.
• COUPLER
  One who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or shackle, to connect cars. Coupler of an organ, a contrivance by which any two or more of the ranks of keys, or keys and pedals, are connected so as to act together when the organ is played.
• COUPLET
  Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other. A sudden couplet rushes on your mind. Crabbe.
• THERMOELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed in the action of heat. See the Note under Electricity.
• THERMOELECTRIC
  Pertaining to thermoelectricity; as, thermoelectric currents.
• COUPLE-BEGGAR
  One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other. Swift.
• COUPLEMENT
  Union; combination; a coupling; a pair. Shak. And forth together rode, a goodly couplement. Spenser.
• COUPLE-CLOSE
  A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised.
• THERMOCOUPLE
  A thermoelectric couple.
• ACCOUPLEMENT
  1. The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union. Caxton. 2. That which couples, as a tie or brace.
• DIRECT-COUPLED
  Coupled without intermediate connections, as an engine and a dynamo. Direct-coupled antenna , an antenna connected electrically with one point of a closed oscillation circuit in syntony with it and earthed.
• UNCOUPLE
  To loose, as dogs, from their couples; also, to set loose; to disconnect; to disjoin; as, to uncouple railroad cars.
• ACCOUPLE
  To join; to couple. The Englishmen accoupled themselves with the Frenchmen. Hall.