Word Meanings - WEBER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The standard unit of electrical quantity, and also of current. See Coulomb, and Amp.

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• COULOMB METER
  Any instrument by which electricity can be measured in coulombs.
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• COULOMB'S LAW
  The law that the force exerted between two electric or magnetic charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely to the square of the distance between them.
• QUANTITY
  1. The attribute of being so much, and not more or less; the property of being measurable, or capable of increase and decrease, multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which answers the question "How much"; measure in
• COULOMB
  The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantitty
• STANDARD-WING
  A curious paradise bird which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.
• STANDARDIZE
  To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.
• 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.
• STANDARD-BRED
  Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders.
• 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.
• ELECTRICALNESS
  The state or quality of being electrical.
• CURRENTLY
  In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currently believed.
• ELECTRICALLY
  In the manner of electricity, or by means of it; thrillingly.
• 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.
• MICROCOULOMB
  A measure of electrical quantity; the millionth part of one coulomb.
• PERCURRENT
  Running through the entire length.
• MEGACOULOMB
  A million coulombs.
• 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:
• 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
• PARALLEL STANDARDS
  Two or more metals coined without any attempt by the government to regulate their values.