Word Meanings - ELECTRO-MOTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.
Related words: (words related to ELECTRO-MOTION)
- METALOGICAL
Beyond the scope or province of logic. - PRODUCIBILITY
The quality or state of being producible. Barrow. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - METALLIC
Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic - MOTIONER
One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall. - MOTIONIST
A mover. - CIRCUITOUS
Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n. Syn. -- Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine. - METALLIFORM
Having the form or structure of a metal. - PRODUCEMENT
Production. - ACTION
Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of - METALLIFACTURE
The production and working or manufacture of metals. R. Park. - METALLOGRAPH
A print made by metallography. - METALLINE
Pertaining to, or resembling, a metal; metallic; as, metalline properties. Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water. - METALLOPHONE
An instrument like a pianoforte, but having metal bars instead of strings. An instrument like the xylophone, but having metallic instead of wooden bars. - CIRCUITY
A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding. - METALLICLY
In a metallic manner; by metallic means. - METALLICAL
See METALLIC - METALEPTIC
Of, pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by, metalepsy. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a metalepsis. 2. Transverse; as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle. - ACTIONABLE
That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable. - METALLOGRAPHIC
Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography. - EXCITO-MOTION
Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory. - REACTIONIST
A reactionary. C. Kingsley. - NERVIMOTION
The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison. - PYROELECTRICITY
Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed. - MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon. - BIMETALLIST
An advocate of bimetallism. - REDACTION
The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest. - CHYLIFACTION
The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process. - NONMETAL
Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals. - FACTION
One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, - DISTRACTION
1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in