Word Meanings - VOLTA-ELECTROMETER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An instrument for the exact measurement of electric currents.
Related words: (words related to VOLTA-ELECTROMETER)
- EXACTOR
One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor. - EXACTING
Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n. - INSTRUMENTAL
Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental - ELECTRICIAN
An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity. - EXACTLY
In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft. - EXACTION
1. The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion. Take away your exactions from my - INSTRUMENTALITY
The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense - ELECTRIC
A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity. - INSTRUMENTATION
1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical - EXACT
drive out, to demand, enforce, finish, determine, measure; ex out + 1. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps - EXACTRESS
A woman who is an exactor. B. Jonson. - INSTRUMENTALLY
1. By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end. South. They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke. 2. With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied. Mason. - INSTRUMENT
A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a deed, contract, writ, etc. Burrill. 4. One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium, - 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 - INSTRUMENTALISM
The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n. Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these - INSTRUMENTALIST
One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist. - EXACTITUDE
The quality of being exact; exactness. - ELECTRICALNESS
The state or quality of being electrical. - INSTRUMENTALNESS
Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality. Hammond. - 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 - ANELECTRIC
Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n. - INEXACTLY
In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor. - INEXACT
Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate. - 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. - 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.