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A dynamo-electric machine.

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

A dynamometer to which is attached a device for automatically registering muscular power.

An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery.

Relating to a dynamometer, or to the measurement of force doing work; as, dynamometrical instruments.

The art or process of measuring forces doing work.

Of or pertaining to the Didynamia; containing four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.

An instrument for measuring the strength of electro-dynamic currents.

Same as Hemadynamometer.

Same as Hemadynamometer.

An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a hæmomanometer.

Pertaining to, or involving, homodynamy; as, successive or homodynamous parts in plants and animals.

An instrument to measure the velocity of a liquid current by the force of its impact.

Of equal force or size.

An instrument for measuring the muscular strength of man or of other animals; a dynamometer. Dunglison.

A series-wound dynamo.

An electric dynamometer having two coils so arranged that one carries the primary current, and the other the secondary current, of a transformer.

Belonging to the order Tetradynamia; having six stamens, four of which are uniformly longer than the others.

A dynamometer in which power is measured, without being absorbed or used up, during transmission.

An air-filled gap in a magnetic or electric circuit; specif., in a dynamo or motor, the space between the field-magnet poles and the armature; clearance.