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.
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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.
Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.
In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.
Elegiac verse.
Elegiac.
One who composes elegies.
An elegist.
A write of elegies.
A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's interest has expired.
To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.
A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
Lifeless matter deposited in the form of minute granules within the protoplasm of living cells.
To compound of elements or first principles.
Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air.
The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.
The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.
According to elements; literally; as, the words, /Take, eat; this is my body,/ elementally understood.
Elementary.
The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.
Elementariness.
Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance.
Instruction in the elements or first principles.
Resembling an element.
A fragrant gum resin obtained chiefly from tropical trees of the genera Amyris and Canarium. Amyris elemifera yields Mexican elemi; Canarium commune, the Manila elemi. It is used in the manufacture of varnishes, also in ointments and plasters.
A transparent, colorless oil obtained from elemi resin by distillation with water; also, a crystallizable extract from the resin.
That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an antagonist; a refutation. A specious but fallacious argument; a sophism.
Pertaining to an elench.
By means of an elench.
To dispute.
Same as Elenctic.
Same as Elench.
Serving to refute; refutative; -- applied to indirect modes of proof, and opposed to deictic.
Sorrowful; wretched; full of trouble.
Loneliness; misery.
Elephantiasis.
A mammal of the order Proboscidia and family Elephantidae, of which two living species, Elephas maximus (formerly Elephas Indicus) and Loxodonta Africana (formerly E. Africanus), and several fossil species, are known. They have five toes, a long proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing. The elephant is classed as a pachyderm.
an annual of the southern U.S. and Mexico (Proboscidea louisianica) having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak.
Affected with elephantiasis; characteristic of elephantiasis.
A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.
a natural family of mammals comrising the elephants.
Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread.
Resembling an elephant in form or appearance.
a genus of annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands.
Pertaining to Eleusis, in Greece, or to secret rites in honor of Ceres, there celebrated; as, Eleusinian mysteries or festivals.
Having the petals free, that is, entirely separate from each other; -- said of both plant and flower.
a genus of completely terrestrial robber frogs.
A mania or frantic zeal for freedom.
Mad for freedom.
To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise; as, to elevate a weight, a flagstaff, etc.
Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts.
The quality of being elevated.
The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.
One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything.
See Elevator, n. (e).
A pupil; a student.
The sum of ten and one; eleven units or objects.
an examination taken by 11 and 12 year old students in England to select suitable candidates for grammar school; -- now no longer used.
The quotient of a unit divided by eleven; one of eleven equal parts.
To entangle mischievously, as an elf might do.
A little elf or urchin.
Of or relating to the elves; elflike; implike; weird; scarcely human; mischievous, as though caused by elves.
In an elfish manner.
The quality of being elfish.
A little elf.
Fairyland.
Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves.
To draw out or entice forth; to bring to light; to bring out against the will; to deduce by reason or argument; as, to elicit truth by discussion.
To elicit.
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