Word Meanings - ELITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A choice or select body; the flower; as, the élite of society.
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- ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it. - ACCEPTABLE
Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us. - CHOICE
1. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable. My choicest hours of life are lost. Swift. 2. Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money. 3. Selected - ELECTROTYPER
One who electrotypes. - ELECTREPETER
An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator. - ELECTRO-DYNAMIC; ELECTRO-DYNAMICAL
Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force. - ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY
The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge. - ELECTRONIC
Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons. - ELECTRO-BIOLOGIST
One versed in electro-biology. - CHOICELY
1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton. - ELECTORATE
1. The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire. 2. The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate - ELECTROLOGY
That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties. - ELECTRICIAN
An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity. - ELECTRO-CHRONOGRAPH
An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph. - ELECTROTYPE
A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively. Note: The face of an electrotype consists of a shell of copper, silver, or the like, produced by the action - ELECTRO-GILDING
The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity. - ACCEPTOR
One who accepts; specifically , - ELECTRO-POLAR
Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor. - ELECTROTONIZE
To cause or produce electrotonus. - ELECTRE; ELECTER
1. Amber. See Electrum. 2. A metallic substance compounded of gold and silver; an alloy. Wyclif. - ANELECTRIC
Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n. - ACCEPT
To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. Bouvier. 6. In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; bill , to agree to pay it when due. -- To accept service , to agree that a writ or - DELITESCENT
Lying hid; concealed. - ROSELITE
A hydrous arsenite of cobalt, occuring in small red crystals, allied to erythrite. - PYROELECTRICITY
Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.