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To put out of phase, as two parts of a single alternating current.

oritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm. A class of critical dicta everywhere current. M. Arnold.

ometer (Elec.), a galvanometer having two coils or circuits, usually equal, through which currents passing in opposite directions are measured by the difference of their effect upon the needle. -- Differential gearing, a train of toothed wheels, usually an epicyclic train, so arranged as to constitute a differential m…

with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing. Mix their watery store. With the chyle's current, and dilute it more. Blackmore.

An apparatus for distributing an electric current, either to various points in rotation, as in some motors, or along two or more lines in parallel, as in a distributing system.

squiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current.

n of the same general weight and value, though differing slightly in different countries, current in Mexico, Canada, parts of South America, also in Spain, and several other European countries.

ng thousands of dominoes, arrayed in fanciful patterns. Domino theory. A political theory current in the 1960's, according to which the conversion of one country in South Asia to communism will start a sequential process causing all Asian countries to convert to Communism. The apparent assumption was that an Asian coun…

A jet or current of water or vapor directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; a douche bath.

A current of air. Same as Draught.

Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught.

A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney. Thackeray. He preferred to go and sit upon the stairs, in . . . a strong draught of air, until he was again sent for. Dickens.

Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room.

The distance through which a current flows in a given time.

Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water. The current of humanity, with its heavy proportion of very useless driftwood. New Your Times.

e spindling of corn. Bacon. One whose drouth [thirst], Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream. Milton. In the dust and drouth of London life. Tennyson.

, a form of the Voltaic pile, constructed without the use of a liquid, affording a feeble current, and chiefly useful in the construction of electroscopes of great delicacy; -- called also Zamboni's , from the names of the two earliest constructors of it. -- Dry pipe (Steam Engine), a pipe which conducts dry steam fro…

Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.

A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.

An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator. [R.]