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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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47 words match “DYNAMO”

An electric generator or dynamo for producing alternating currents.

AUTOMIXTE SYSTEM n.

a Belgian) of driving automobiles employing a gasoline engine and an auxiliary reversible dynamo. When there is an excess of power the dynamo is driven by the engine so as to charge a small storage battery; when there is a deficiency of power the dynamo reverses and acts as an auxiliary motor. Sometimes called Pieper s…

hin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus.

DIRECT-COUPLED a.

Coupled without intermediate connections, as an engine and a dynamo.

A device for measuring, or an instrument for indicating, energy expended or work done; a dynamometer. -- Er`go*met"ric (#), a.

GRAMME MACHINE n.

A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.

HAEMATOMETER n.

Same as Hemadynamometer.

HAEMOMANOMETER n.

Same as Hemadynamometer.

Same as Hemadynamometer.

Homodynamous. Quain.

MAGNETO-ELECTRIC; MAGNETO-ELECTRICAL a.

he action of magnets; as, magneto-electric induction. Magneto-electric machine, a form of dynamo-electric machine in which the field is maintained by permanent steel magnets instead of electro-magnets.

One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven's larva.

A suffix denoting that by which anything is measured; as, barometer, chronometer, dynamometer.

MYODYNAMIOMETER n.

A myodynamometer.

A dynamometer for measuring the force required to draw wheel carriages on roads of different constructions. G. Francis.

PILOT LAMP; PILOT LIGHT n.

A small incandescent telltale lamp on a dynamo or battery circuit to show approximately by its brightness the voltage of the current.

A dynamometer for ascertaining the power required to draw carriages over roads.

Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged. Recoil dynamometer (Gunnery), an instrument for measuring the force of the recoil of a firearm. -- Recoil escapement See the Note under Escapement.