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pended in one second by an electric current of one ampere in a resistance of one ohm. One joule is approximately equal to 0.738 foot pounds. Joule's equivalent. See under Equivalent, n.

The cycle for the air engine proposed by Joule. In it air is taken by a pump from a cold chamber and compressed adiabatically until its pressure is eqal to that of the air in a hot chamber, into which it is then delivered, thereby displacing an equal amount of hot air into the engine cylinder. Here it expands adiabatic…

The law that the rate at which heat is produced in any part of an electric circuit is measured by the product of the square of the current into the resistance of that part of the circuit. If the current

An integrating wattmeter for measuring the energy in joules expended in an electric circuit or developed by a machine.

To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions.

Daily; diurnal. [Obs.] Whiles from their journal labors they did rest. Spenser.

The keeping of a journal or diary. [Obs.]

One who keeps a journal or diary. [Obs.] Mickle.

Pertaining to journals or to journalists; contained in, or characteristic of, the public journals; as journalistic literature or enterprise.

To enter or record in a journal or diary. Johnson.

f a day. [Obs.] Chaucer. We have yet large day, for scarce the sun Hath finished half his journey. Milton.

Worn out with journeying. [Obs.] Shak.

One who journeys.

-- distinguished from apprentice and from master workman. I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well. Shak.

Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade.

rseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt. [Written also just.] For the whole army to joust and tourney. Holland.

One who jousts or tilts.

The metal tin. Bird of Jove, the eagle.

Of or pertaining to the god, or the planet, Jupiter. [Obs.] Our jovial star reigned at his birth. Shak. The fixed stars astrologically differenced by the planets, and esteemed Martial or Jovial according to the colors whereby they answer these planets. Sir T. Browne.