Word Meanings - ELECTRO-TELEGRAPHIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to the electric telegraph, or by means of it.

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• ELECTRICIAN
  An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
• TELEGRAPHIC
  Of or pertaining to the telegraph; made or communicated by a telegraph; as, telegraphic signals; telegraphic art; telegraphic intelligence.
• ELECTRIC
  A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.
• TELEGRAPHONE
  An instrument for recording and reproducing sound by local magnetization of a steel wire, disk, or ribbon, moved against the pole of a magnet connected electrically with a telephone receiver, or the like.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• ELECTRICITY
  1. A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direction in which involves polarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by
• TELEGRAPHER
  One who sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a telegraphist.
• TELEGRAPHY
  The science or art of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as, submarine telegraphy.
• TELEGRAPH PLANT
  An East Indian tick trefoil , whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes.
• TELEGRAPHOSCOPE
  An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, ralay, equilibrator,
• TELEGRAPHIST
  One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher.
• ELECTRICALNESS
  The state or quality of being electrical.
• ELECTRIC; ELECTRICAL
  metal, Gr. arc to beam, shine: cf. F. électrique. The name came from 1. Pertaining to electricity; consisting of, containing, derived from, or produced by, electricity; as, electric power or virtue; an electric jar; electric effects; an electric
• TELEGRAPH
  An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action.
• ELECTRICALLY
  In the manner of electricity, or by means of it; thrillingly.
• TELEGRAPHICAL
  Telegraphic. -- Tel`e*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
• ANELECTRIC
  Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
• PANTELEGRAPH
  See TELEGRAPH
• PYROELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.
• IDIOELECTRIC
  Electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties; capable of becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to anelectric. -- n.
• DYNAMO-ELECTRIC
  Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.
• 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.
• PHOTO-ELECTRICITY
  Electricity produced by light.
• RADIOTELEGRAPHY
  Telegraphy using the radiant energy of electrical waves; wireless telegraphy; -- the term adopted for use by the Radiotelegraphic Convention of 1912.
• HYDRO-ELECTRIC
  Pertaining to, employed in, or produced by, the evolution of electricity by means of a battery in which water or steam is used. Hydro-electric machine , an apparatus invented by Sir William Armstrong of England for generating electricity by the
• THERMOELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed in the action of heat. See the Note under Electricity.
• RESINO-ELECTRIC
  Containing or exhibiting resinous electricity.
• NONELECTRIC
  A substance that is not an electric; that which transmits electricity, as a metal.
• 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