Word Meanings - RHEOMOTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Any apparatus by which an electrical current is originated.
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- CURRENT
1. A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current - 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. - ORIGINATION
1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca - ORIGINATOR
One who originates. - 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. - ORIGINATE
To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new. A decomposition of the whole civill and political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order. Burke. - 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. - ELECTRICALNESS
The state or quality of being electrical. - CURRENTLY
In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currently believed. - APPARATUS
A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus. (more info) 1. Things provided as means to some end. 2. Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or - ELECTRICALLY
In the manner of electricity, or by means of it; thrillingly. - ORIGINATIVE
Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating. H. Bushnell. -- O*rig"i*na*tive*ly, adv. - 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. - PERCURRENT
Running through the entire length. - 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: - UNORIGINATELY
Without origin. - 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 - DISCURRENT
Not current or free to circulate; not in use. Sir E. Sandys.