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n a circuit due to the action of one portion of a current upon an adjacent portion during periods of varying current strength. The nature of the induction is such as to oppose the action which produces it.

A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or uneversity which divides the year into two terms.

ifically applied to the language intermediate between Saxon and English, belonging to the period 1150- 1250.

A bull issued by a pope in the period between his election and coronation.

Of or pertaining to half of a century, or a period of fifty years; as, a semicentennial commemoration.

Something done or made every half month; esp., a semimonthly periodical. -- adv.

That which comes or happens once every half week, esp. a semiweekly periodical. -- adv.

rds which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.

Of or pertaining to a sentence, or full period; as, a sentential pause.

A period of seven years; as, the septennate during which the President of the French Republic holds office.

ies or succession of part; a tale, or other writing, published in successive numbers of a periodical.

e cube of b is to the square root of the cube of b', or a:a'::sq. rootb3:sq. rootb'3. The periodic times of the planets are in the sesquiplicate ratio of their mean distances. Sir I. Newton.

Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judic…

A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight.

kings, the chiefs of a nomadic people who invaded Egypt from the East in the traditional period, and conquered it, at least in part. They were expelled after about five hundred years, and attempts have been made to connect their expulsion with narrative in the book of Exodus. -- Shepherd's club (Bot.), the common mul…

le by coming with planetary velocity into the upper regions of the atmosphere. At certain periods, as on the 13th of November and 10th of August, they appear for a few hours in great numbers, apparently diverging from some point in the heavens, such displays being known as meteoric showers, or star showers. These bodie…

The days immediately preceding Ash Widnesday, especially the period between the evening before Quinguagesima Sunday and the morning of Ash Wednesday.

nder Balsam. -- Silver age (Roman Lit.), the latter part (a. d. 14-180) of the classical period of Latinity, -- the time of writers of inferior purity of language, as compared with those of the previous golden age, so-called. -- Silver-bell tree (Bot.), an American shrub or small tree (Halesia tetraptera) with white…

The period of a transitory breeze.

A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more o…