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That branch of electrical science which treats of electricity in motion.

A mass, usually of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, as nickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being placed within a coil of wire through which a current of electricity is passing. The metal is generally in the form of a bar, either straight, or bent into the shape of a horseshoe.…

g to, or produced by, magnetism which is developed by the passage of an electric current. Electro-magnetic engine, an engine in which the motive force is electro-magnetism. -- Electro-magnetic theory of light (Physics), a theory of light which makes it consist in the rapid alternation of transient electric currents mo…

The magnetism developed by a current of electricity; the science which treats of the development of magnetism by means of voltaic electricity, and of the properties or actions of the currents evolved.

The act or art precipitating a metal electro-chemical action, by which a coating is deposited, on a prepared surface, as in electroplating and electrotyping; galvanoplasty.

Pertaining to electrometry; made by means of electrometer; as, an electrometrical experiment.

The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.

Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects. Electro-motive force (Physics), the force which produces, or tends to produce, electricity, or an electric current; sometimes used to express the degree of electrification as equivalent…

Pertaining the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.

Having the property of being attracted by an electro-positive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other.

Pertaining to electrical results produced through physiological agencies, or by change of action in a living organism.

That branch of physiology which treats of electric phenomena produced through physiological agencies.

Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor.

while the associated body tends to the positive pole; - - the converse or correlative of electro-negative.

See Electropuncture.

An operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus.

Same as Electrotype.

Pertaining to the electric telegraph, or by means of it.

The art or science of constructing or using the electric telegraph; the transmission of messages by means of the electric telegraph.

The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent.