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- English Word Electro-polar Definition Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor.
- English Word Electro-positive Definition 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.
- English Word Electro-positive Definition Hence: Positive; metallic; basic; -- distinguished from negative, nonmetallic, or acid.
- English Word Electro-positive Definition A body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis.
- English Word Electro-puncturation Definition Alt. of Electro-puncturing
- English Word Electro-puncture Definition An operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus.
- English Word Electro-puncturing Definition See Electropuncture.
- English Word Electro-stereotype Definition Same as Electrotype.
- English Word Electro-telegraphic Definition Pertaining to the electric telegraph, or by means of it.
- English Word Electro-telegraphy Definition The art or science of constructing or using the electric telegraph; the transmission of messages by means of the electric telegraph.
- English Word Electro-therapeutics Definition The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent.
- English Word Electro-thermancy Definition That branch of electrical science which treats of the effect of an electric current upon the temperature of a conductor, or a part of a circuit composed of two different metals.
- English Word Electro-tint Definition 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.
- English Word Electro-vital Definition Derived from, or dependent upon, vital processes; -- said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals.
- English Word Electro-vitalism Definition The theory that the functions of living organisms are dependent upon electricity or a kindred force.
- English Word Electrocute Definition To execute or put to death by electricity. -- E*lec`tro*cu"tion, n. [Recent; Newspaper words]
- English Word Electrode Definition The path by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current.
- English Word Electrogenesis Definition Same as Electrogeny.
- English Word Electrogenic Definition Of or pertaining to electrogenesis; as, an electrogenic condition.
- English Word Electrogeny Definition 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.
- English Word Electrograph Definition A mark, record, or tracing, made by the action of electricity.
- English Word Electrolier Definition A branching frame, often of ornamental design, to support electric illuminating lamps.
- English Word Electrology Definition That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties.
- English Word Electrolysis Definition 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.
- English Word Electrolyte Definition A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.
- English Word Electrolytic Definition Alt. of Electrolytical
- English Word Electrolytical Definition Pertaining to electrolysis; as, electrolytic action.
- English Word Electrolyzable Definition Capable of being electrolyzed, or decomposed by electricity.
- English Word Electrolyzation Definition The act or the process of electrolyzing.
- English Word Electrolyze Definition To decompose by the direct action of electricity.