Word Meanings - ELECTROSCOPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Presenting
  of Present
• Presentive
  Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic.
• 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 ideas a
• Electrician
  An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
• Presentable
  Capable or admitting of being presented; suitable to be exhibited, represented, or offered; fit to be brought forward or set forth; hence, fitted to be introduced to another, or to go into society; as, ideas that are presentable in simple language
• Presently
  At present; at this time; now.
• Statement
  The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.
• MEANSPIRITED
  Of a mean spirit; base; groveling. -- Mean"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.
• Electricities
  of Electricity
• Electricity
  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 attr
• Presentaneous
  Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison.
• Presentment
  The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; presentation.
• Statemonger
  One versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs.
• PRESENTVALUEPRESENTWORTH
  The principal which, drawing interest at a given rate, will amount to the given sum at the date on which this is to be paid; thus, interest being at 6%, the present value of 6 due one year hence is 0.
• Instrument
  That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical instruments.
• Presentation
  The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; a setting forth; an offering; bestowal.
• Presentness
  The quality or state of being present; presence.
• Stateprison
  See under State, n.

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