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A telelectric apparatus for producing images of visible objects at a distance.

A photograph, image, or impression, reproduced by or taken with a telephotographic apparatus.

A system of apparatus for electric signals providing for automatic transmission of a definite number of different signals or calls, as in connection with hotel annunciators.

An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.

A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke.

Either of the ends of the conducting circuit of an electrical apparatus, as an inductorium, dynamo, or electric motor, usually provided with binding screws for the attachment of wires by which a current may be conveyed into or from the machine; a pole.

The estimation of temperature by the use of a thermometric apparatus.

An apparatus for conveying heat, as a case containing material which retains its heat for a considerable period.

A self-acting apparatus for regulating temperature by the unequal expansion of different metals, liquids, or gases by heat, as in opening or closing the damper of a stove, or the like, as the heat becomes greater or less than is desired.

awing rollers with bobbins and flyers, and differing from the mule in having the twisting apparatus stationary and the processes continuous; -- so called because it makes a singing noise. Throstle cock, the missel thrush. [Prov. Eng.]

An apparatus for the determination of colors by comparison with arbitrary standards; a colorimeter.

Furniture; apparatus; equipment. [Obs.] "The tire of war." Philips.

An instrument or apparatus for measuring or detecting tithonicity; an actinometer. [R.]

An apparatus for studying and registering the action of various fluids and drugs on the excised heart of lower animals.

One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. (Elec.), an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage.

An apparatus for depositing and consolidating concrete under water, essentially a tube of wood or sheet metal with a hooperlike top. It is usually handled by a crane.

An apparatus for the detection of trichinæ in the flesh of animals, as of swine.

n or trigonid and this stage the tritubercular or trigonodont. The trigon being a cutting apparatus, an extension of the posterior part of the crown was developed in lower molars for crushing, and a smaller corresponding part appeared in upper molars. Another large cone then arose, usually from the cingulum. In more co…

A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace. [Written also trompe, and trombe.]

A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.