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A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.

Pertaining to electricity; consisting of, containing, derived from, or produced by, electricity; as, electric power or virtue; an electric jar; electric effects; an electric spark.

In the manner of electricity, or by means of it; thrillingly.

The state or quality of being electrical.

An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.

Atmospheric electricity, any condition of electrical disturbance in the atmosphere or clouds, due to some or all of the above mentioned causes. (e) Magnetic electricity, electricity developed by the action of magnets. (f) Positive electricity, the electricity that appears at the positive pole or anode of a battery, or…

Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.

Any substance or medium that transmits the electric force by a process different from conduction, as in the phenomena of induction; a nonconductor. separating a body electrified by induction, from the electrifying body.

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

Pertaining to, employed in, or produced by, the evolution of electricity by means of a battery in which water or steam is used. Hydro-electric machine (Physics), an apparatus invented by Sir William Armstrong of England for generating electricity by the escape of high-pressure steam from a series of jets connected with…

Electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties; capable of becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to anelectric. -- n.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, electricity by the action of magnets; as, magneto-electric induction. Magneto-electric machine, a form of dynamo-electric machine in which the field is maintained by permanent steel magnets instead of electro-magnets.

Electricity evolved by the action of magnets.

A substance that is not an electric; that which transmits electricity, as a metal.

Not electric; conducting electricity.

Acting by the operation of both light and electricity; -- said of apparatus for producing pictures by electric light.

l (as one of two electrodes embedded in selenium) which by exposure to light generates an electric current.

Pert. to, or capable of developing, photo-electricity.

Electricity produced by light.

Pertaining to, or dependent on, pyroelectricity; receiving electric polarity when heated.