Word Meanings - ELECTRO-MOTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Electro-engraving
The art or process of engraving by means of electricity.
ELECTROBIOSCOPY
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.
Electrolyzable
Capable of being electrolyzed, or decomposed by electricity.
ELECTROLYTICELECTROLYTICAL
Pertaining to electrolysis; as, electrolytic action. -- E*lec`tro*lyt"ic*al*ly, adv.
Electron
Amber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum.
ELECTROPOSITIVE
Of such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; - - the converse or correlative of electro-negative. Note:
Electroscope
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.
TENDERHEFTED
Having great tenderness; easily moved. [Obs.] Shak.
Electrotyping
of Electrotype
Causator
One who causes.
Producent
One who produces, or offers to notice.
Caustically
In a caustic manner.
Tendance
The act of attending or waiting; attendance.
Electro-ballistics
The art or science of measuring the force or velocity of projectiles by means of electricity.
Electro-etching
A mode of etching upon metals by electrolytic action.
ELECTROCAPILLARITY
The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
Electrolyzation
The act or the process of electrolyzing.
ELECTROMAGNET
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
Electro-negative
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.

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