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Rendered electro-polar by induction, or brought into the opposite electrical state by the influence of inductive bodies.

lectrical or magnetic force or condition from one body on another without actual contact. Electro-dynamic induction, the action by which a variable or interrupted current of electricity excites another current in a neighboring conductor forming a closed circuit. -- Electro-magnetic induction, the influence by which an…

One of the elements which appear at the respective poles when a body is subjected to electro-chemical decomposition. Cf. Anion, Cation.

o-electric machine in which the field is maintained by permanent steel magnets instead of electro-magnets.

treats of the development of electricity by the action of magnets; -- the counterpart of electro- magnetism.

ng a great quantity of electricity of low tension, and hence adapted to the exhibition of electro-magnetic phenomena. [R.]

One of the larger measures of electro-motive force, amounting to one million volts.

A measure of electro-motive force; the millionth part of one volt.

it is a resistance substantially equal to 109 units of resistance of the C.G.S. system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of the l…

or dull metal with a thin plate of precious or bright metal, as by mechanical means or by electro-magnetic deposition.

hydrogen, and results in an increase of the resistance, and the setting up of an opposing electro-motive force, both of which tend materially to weaken the current of the battery, or that passing through the cell.

s; multiphase; as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current.

Electro-positive.

hence, the degree of electrification as referred to some standard, as that of the earth; electro-motive force.

An instrument for measuring or comparing electrial potentials or electro-motive forces.

s measured in ohms. The reactance of a circuit is equal to the component of the impressed electro-motive force at right angles to the current divided by the current, that is, the component of the impedance due to the self-inductance or capacity of the circuit.

A prefix (also used adjectively) denoting the combination of constituents (especially electro-negative and electro-positive bodies) in the proportion of two to three; as, a subsesqui acetate, i. e., a salt having two equivalents of acetic acid to three of the base.

be used in a stock ticker, usu. of paper and being narrow but long. -- Stock ticker, an electro-mechanical information receiving device connected by telegraphic wire to a stock exchange, and which prints out the latest transactions or news on stock exchanges, commonly found in the offices of stock brokers. By 1980 la…

The unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one ampère. It is practically equivalent to

Of or pertaining to the positive pole of a galvanic battery; electro-positive.