Word Meanings - THERMOJUNCTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A junction of two dissimilar conductors used to produce a thermoelectric current, as in one form of pyrometer; a thermocouple.

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• DISSIMILARLY
  In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• 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.
• THERMOCOUPLE
  A thermoelectric couple.
• PYROMETER
  An instrument used for measuring the expansion of solid bodies by heat.
• THERMOELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed in the action of heat. See the Note under Electricity.
• PRODUCER
  A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel. (more info) 1. One who produces, brings forth, or generates. 2. One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.
• DISSIMILAR
  Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features. This part very dissimilar to any other. Boyle.
• PRODUCENT
  One who produces, or offers to notice. Ayliffe.
• DISSIMILARITY
  Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilitude; variety; as, the dissimilarity of human faces and forms. Sir W. Jones.
• THERMOELECTRIC
  Pertaining to thermoelectricity; as, thermoelectric currents.
• JUNCTION
  1. The act of joining, or the state of being joined; union; combination; coalition; as, the junction of two armies or detachments; the junction of paths. 2. The place or point of union, meeting, or junction; specifically, the place where two or
• 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.
• CURRENT
  of curre, corre, F. courre, courir, to run, from L. currere; perh. 1. Running or moving rapidly. Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord. Gower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.
• PRODUCER'S SURPLUS; PRODUCER'S RENT
  Any profit above the normal rate of interest and wages accruing to a producer on account of some monopoly of the means or materials of production; -- called also Producer's rent.
• CURRENTLY
  In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currently believed.
• PRODUCER'S GOODS
  Goods that satisfy wants only indirectly as factors in the production of other goods, such as tools and raw material; -- called also instrumental goods, auxiliary goods, intermediate goods, or goods of the second and higher orders, and disting.
• PRODUCE RACE
  A race to be run by the produce of horses named or described at the time of entry.
• PRODUCE
  To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle. (more info) 1. To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court. Produce your
• JUNCTION BOX
  A box through which the main conductors of a system of electric distribution pass, and where connection is made with branch circuits.
• 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.
• SEJUNCTION
  The act of disjoining, or the state of being disjoined. Bp. Pearson.
• 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.
• CONJUNCTIONAL
  Relating to a conjunction.
• THERMOCURRENT
  A current, as of electricity, developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat.
• FOUCAULT CURRENT
  An eddy current.
• REPRODUCER
  One who, or that which, reproduces. Burke.
• 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: