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A torsion balance used for measuring electric attraction or repulsion.

Containing or exhibiting positive, or vitreous, electricity.

Of or pertaining to voltaic electricity, or voltaism.

An instrument for the exact measurement of electric currents.

e, chemical, or any molecular action, as when charcoal absorbs gases. So heat, light, and electricity are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass. Nichol. p. 8

imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc.

nergy or power, the storing of energy by means of weights lifted or masses put in motion; electricity stored. -- An accumulation of degrees (Eng. Univ.), the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or than is allowed by the rules.

hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc.

surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.

The property of radiant energy (found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes are produced, as in photography.

ary orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general. (b) (Among the Jesuits), one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care.

To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.

A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave. [Pole] might have been chosen on the spot by adoration. Froude.

A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria. Bp. Bull.

ous particles of bodies, and unites them to form chemical compounds; chemism; chemical or elective affinity or attraction.

An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements.

An air-filled gap in a magnetic or electric circuit; specif., in a dynamo or motor, the space between the field-magnet poles and the armature; clearance.

An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver.

enormous velocities but small masses. They are slightly deflected by a strong magnetic or electric field.

An electric generator or dynamo for producing alternating currents.