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- English Word Rheometric Definition Of or pertaining to a rheometer or rheometry.
- English Word Rheometry Definition The measurement of the force or intensity of currents.
- English Word Rheometry Definition The calculus; fluxions.
- English Word Rheomotor Definition Any apparatus by which an electrical current is originated.
- English Word Rheophore Definition A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current.
- English Word Rheophore Definition One of the poles of a voltaic battery; an electrode.
- English Word Rheoscope Definition An instrument for detecting the presence or movement of currents, as of electricity.
- English Word Rheostat Definition A contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of resistance which can be varied at will.
- English Word Rheotome Definition An instrument which periodically or otherwise interrupts an electric current.
- English Word Rheotrope Definition An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric current.
- English Word Rhesus Definition A monkey; the bhunder.
- English Word Rhetian Definition Pertaining to the ancient Rhaeti, or Rhaetians, or to Rhaetia, their country; as, the Rhetian Alps, now the country of Tyrol and the Grisons.
- English Word Rhetic Definition Same as Rhaetic.
- English Word Rhetizite Definition Same as Rhaetizite.
- English Word Rhetor Definition A rhetorician.
- English Word Rhetoric Definition The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose.
- English Word Rhetoric Definition Oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and force.
- English Word Rhetoric Definition Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling.
- English Word Rhetoric Definition Fig. : The power of persuasion or attraction; that which allures or charms.
- English Word Rhetorical Definition Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.