An electress.

Electoral.

The office or status of an elector.

An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.

The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire.

A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.

a device used for execution of criminals, consisting of a specially designed chair in which the victim is killed by passing a large current of electricity through the body. This method of killing is called electrocution.

Pertaining to electricity; consisting of, containing, derived from, or produced by, electricity; as, electric power or virtue; an electric jar; electric effects; an electric spark; an electric charge; an electric current; an electrical engineer.

In the manner of electricity, or by means of it; thrillingly.

The state or quality of being electrical.

An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.

a property of certain of the fundamental particles of which matter is composed, called also electric charge, and being of two types, designated positive and negative; the property of electric charge on a particle or physical body creates a force field which affects other particles or bodies possessing electric charge; positive charges create a repulsive force between them, and negative charges also create a repulsive force. A positively charged body and a negatively charged body will create an attractive force between them. The unit of electrical charge is the coulomb, and the intensity of the force field at any point is measured in volts.

Capable of receiving electricity, or of being charged with it.

The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.

To become electric.

Belonging to, or made of, amber.

The recognition by an animal body of the electrical condition of external objects.

The act of electrizing; electrification.

To electricity.

One who, or that which, electrizes.

An electrotype.

Pertaining to electro-ballistics.

The art or science of measuring the force or velocity of projectiles by means of electricity.

One versed in electro-biology.

That branch of biology which treats of the electrical phenomena of living organisms.

A method of determining the presence or absence of life in an animal organism with a current of electricity, by noting the presence or absence of muscular contraction.

The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.

Pert. to, or caused by, electro-capillarity.

Of or pertaining to electro-chemistry.

That branch of science which treats of the relation of electricity to chemical changes.

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.

Belonging to the electro-chronograph, or recorded by the aid of it.

Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.

The phenomena of electricity in motion.

An instrument for measuring the strength of electro-dynamic currents.

The art or process of engraving by means of electricity.

A mode of etching upon metals by electrolytic action.

The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.

Gilded by means of voltaic electricity.

Of or pertaining to electro-kinetics.

That branch of electrical science which treats of electricity in motion.

A mass, usually of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, as nickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being placed within a coil of wire through which a current of electricity is passing. The metal is generally in the form of a bar, either straight, or bent into the shape of a horseshoe.

Of or pertaining to electromagnetism.

magnetism produced by an electric current.

The act or art precipitating a metal electro-chemical action, by which a coating is deposited, on a prepared surface, as in electroplating and electrotyping; galvanoplasty.

Pertaining to electrometry; made by means of an electrometer; as, an electrometrical experiment.

The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.

Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects.

Pertaining to the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.

A body which passes to the positive pole in electrolysis; an anion.

Pertaining to electrical results produced through physiological agencies, or by change of action in a living organism.

That branch of physiology which treats of electric phenomena produced through physiological agencies; it is especially concerned with electrical impulses generated by and conducted between nerves.

Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor.

A body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis.

An operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus.

See Electropuncture.

Same as Electrotype.

Pertaining to the electric telegraph, or by means of it.

The art or science of constructing or using the electric telegraph; the transmission of messages by means of the electric telegraph.

The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent.

A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing.

Derived from, or dependent upon, vital processes; -- said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals.

The theory that the functions of living organisms are dependent upon electricity or a kindred force.

To execute or put to death by electricity.

execution by electricity.

an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person.

a conducting object by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other non-metallic conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current.

Same as Electrogeny.

Of or pertaining to electrogenesis; as, an electrogenic condition.

A term sometimes applied to the effects (tetanus) produced in the muscles of the limbs, when a current of electricity is passed along the spinal cord or nerves.

A mark, record, or tracing, made by the action of electricity.

Of or pertaining to an electrograph or electrography.

The art or process of making electrographs or using an electrograph.

A branching frame, often of ornamental design, to support electric illuminating lamps.

That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties.

The act or process of chemical decomposition, by the action of electricity; as, the electrolysis of silver or nickel for plating; the electrolysis of water.

A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.

Pertaining to electrolysis; as, electrolytic action.

Capable of being electrolyzed, or decomposed by electricity.

The act or the process of electrolyzing.

To decompose by the direct action of electricity.

An instrument for measuring the quantity or intensity of electricity; also, sometimes, and less properly, applied to an instrument which indicates the presence of electricity (usually called an electroscope).

The art or process of making electrical measurements.

A mover or exciter of electricity; as apparatus for generating a current of electricity.

Amber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum.

a unit of energy, being equal to the kinetic energy acquired by an electron when accelerated through a potential difference of one volt. It is equal to 1.602 x 10-19 Joules. It is abbreviated eV.

Having the property of being attracted by an electro-positive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other. Contrasted with neutral and electropositive

having no net electric charge; not electrified; uncharged; neutral. Opposite of charged.

Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons; as, electronic energy.

a device depending on the principles of electronics and using the manipulation of electron flow for its operation.

a message transmitted from one computer to another, accessible by means of a mail reading program on the receiving computer. The message may have one or many intended recipients, and may be directed by the sending program to one or to multiple receiving computers. The message is typically in the form of a computer file, and may be a simple ASCII text, or any other type of binary coded information

the branch of physics that deals with the behavior of electrons. Electronics is primarily concerned with phenomena other than simple conduction, such as emission of electrons, storage of electrical charge, the effects of electrical fields on the conduction of electrons through a circuit, and amplification and manipulation of electric signals such as voltage or current by design of circuits. Electronics also encompasses the application of such fundamental principles to the construction of devices using the manipulation of electrons in their operation, known as electronic devices.

The treatment of disease by electricity.

An instrument for producing sound by means of electric currents.

the motion of charged molecules or particles in a liquid medium under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge move toward the cathode and negative to the anode.

of or pertaining to electrophoresis; electrophoretic mobility; accomplished using electrophoresis; as, electrophoretic separation; electrophoretic analysis.

small natural family comprising the electric eels.

An instrument for exciting electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by induction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shellac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal.

To plate or cover with a coating of metal, usually silver, nickel, chromium, or gold, by means of electrolysis.

One who electroplates.

The art or process of depositing a coating (commonly) of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of an electric current. The metal to be deposited on an article is usually used as the anode and the article to be plated as the cathode, in an electrolyte solution in which the plating metal is the cation. The process is conducted in a tank called an electroplating bath, which holds the electrolyte solution.

An exciting and depolarizing acid solution used in certain cells or batteries, as the Grenet battery. Electropoion is best prepared by mixing one gallon of concentrated sulphuric acid diluted with three gallons of water, with a solution of six pounds of potassium bichromate in two gallons of boiling water. It should be used cold.

An instrument for detecting the presence of electricity, or changes in the electric state of bodies, or the species of electricity present, as by means of pith balls, and the like.

Relating to, or made by means of, the electroscope.

Pertaining to electrostatics.

That branch of science which treats of statical electricity or electric force in a state of rest.

Of or pertaining to electrical tension; -- said of a supposed peculiar condition of a conducting circuit during its exposure to the action of another conducting circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain stationary.

To cause or produce electrotonus.

Electrotonic.

The modified condition of a nerve, when a constant current of electricity passes through any part of it. See Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus.

To make facsimile plates of by the electrotype process; as, to electrotype a page of type, a book, etc. See Electrotype, n.

One who electrotypes.

Pertaining to, or effected by means of, electrotypy.

The act or the process of making electrotypes.

The process of producing electrotype plates. See Note under Electrotype, n.

Amber.

A medicine composed of powders, or other ingredients, incorporated with some convserve, honey, or sirup; a confection. See the note under Confection.

In an eleemosynary manner; by charity; charitably.

One who subsists on charity; a dependent.

The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc.