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Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.

To elect again; as, to reëlect the former governor.

Election a second time, or anew; as, the reëlection of a former chief.

Containing or exhibiting resinous electricity.

as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice. A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater teacher. Macaulay.

With care and selection. [R.]

The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.

Selecting; tending to select. This selective providence of the Almighty. Bp. Hall.

5 by the inhabitants of Charlestown at a full meeting for the government of the town, by selectmen;" the name presently extended throughout New England to municipal governors. Palfrey.

The quality or state of being select.

One who selects.

Having the right of electing one's self, or, as a body, of electing its own members.

Pert. to or designating any form of spark tube the electric discharge within which is used in spectroscopic observations.

Of or pertaining to the generation of electricity by means of solid bodies alone; as, a stereoelectric current is one obtained by means of solids, without any liquid.

Of or pertaining to transmission, as of music, to a distance by electricity.

Any apparatus for making distant objects visible by the aid of electric transmission.

Pertaining to thermoelectricity; as, thermoelectric currents.

as bars or wires of dissimilar metals joined at their extremities, for producing a thermoelectric current.

Electricity developed in the action of heat. See the Note under Electricity.

An instrument for measuring the strength of an electric current in the heat which it produces, or for determining the heat developed by such a current.