Word Meanings - THERMOCURRENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A current, as of electricity, developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat.

Related words: (words related to THERMOCURRENT)

• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• 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
• ACTIONABLE
  That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
• DEVELOPABLE
  Capable of being developed. J. Peile. Developable surface , a surface described by a moving right line, and such that consecutive positions of the generator intersect each other. Hence, the surface can be developed into a plane.
• MOTION PICTURE
  A moving picture.
• MOTIONLESS
  Without motion; being at rest.
• DEVELOP
  To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value. (more info) voleper, to envelop, perh. from L. volup agreeably, delightfully, and hence orig., to make agreeable
• 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
• MOTION
  An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act, process, or state of changing place or position;
• DEVELOPMENTAL
  Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. Carpenter.
• ACTIONABLY
  In an actionable manner.
• 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.
• CURRENT
  of curre, corre, F. courre, courir, to run, from L. currere; perh. 1. Running or moving rapidly. Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord. Gower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.
• ACTIONARY; ACTIONIST
  A shareholder in joint-stock company.
• CURRENTLY
  In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currently believed.
• ACTIONLESS
  Void of action.
• DEVELOPER
  A reagent by the action of which the latent image upon a photographic plate, after exposure in the camera, or otherwise, is developed and visible. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, develops.
• 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
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• 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
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• 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.
• 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.
• PERCURRENT
  Running through the entire length.
• 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.
• 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
• NONDEVELOPMENT
  Failure or lack of development.
• REFACTION
  Recompense; atonemet; retribution. Howell.
• COLLIQUEFACTION
  A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.