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Word Meanings - PHOTOGRAPHONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A device, consisting essentially of an electric arc and a camera, by which a series of photographs of the variations of the arc due to sound waves are obtained for reproduction by means of a selenium cell and a telephone.

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  • CONSISTENTLY
    In a consistent manner.
  • SERIES DYNAMO
    A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
  • WAVESON
    Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea.
  • CAMERADE
    See COMRADE,
  • ELECTRICIAN
    An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
  • CONSIST
    1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
  • OBTAINABLE
    Capable of being obtained.
  • CONSISTORIAN
    Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
  • SERIES MOTOR
    A series-wound motor. A motor capable of being used in a series circuit.
  • SELENIUM
    A nonmetallic element of the sulphur group, and analogous to sulphur in its compounds. It is found in small quantities with sulphur and some sulphur ores, and obtained in the free state as a dark reddish powder or crystalline mass, or as a dark
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • CAMERA OBSCURA
    An apparatus in which the image of an external object or objects is, by means of lenses. thrown upon a sensitized plate or surface placed at the back or an extensible darkened box or chamber variously modifled; -- commonly called simply the camera.
  • DEVICEFUL
    Full of devices; inventive. A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.
  • SOUNDLY
    In a sound manner.
  • CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
    1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
  • SOUNDNESS
    The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
  • SERIES
    Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups. Note: Sometimes a series includes several classes; sometimes only orders or families; in other cases only species. (more info) together; cf. Gr.
  • ELECTRIC
    A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.
  • CAMERALISTIC
    Of or pertaining to finance and public revenue.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • ANELECTRIC
    Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
  • HIGH-SOUNDING
    Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
  • RESOUND
    resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
  • MAGAZINE CAMERA
    A camera in which a number of plates can be exposed without reloading.
  • PYROELECTRICITY
    Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.
  • SOUNDER
    One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
  • REOBTAINABLE
    That may be reobtained.
  • 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.
  • POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
    Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
  • SOUNDLESS
    Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.

 

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