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The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive for…

Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; -- applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday's investigations of their laws.

The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.

To stimulate with, or subject to, faradic, or inducted, electric currents. --Far"a*diz`er (#), n.

See Megafarad. [R.]

One of the larger measures of electrical capacity, amounting to one million farads; a macrofarad.

The millionth part of a farad.

Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour. Faraday.

A substance incapable of being electrified by friction. Faraday.

hich, in electro- chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode; -- opposed to cation. Faraday.

taken by the magnetic force in passing from one pole of a horseshoe magnet to the other. Faraday.

The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery. Faraday.

e electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode. Faraday. Cathode ray (Phys.), a kind of ray generated at the cathode in a vacuum tube, by the electrical discharge.

substance, which in electro-decomposition is evolved at the cathode; -- opposed to anion. Faraday.

Caused or accomplished by convection; as, a convective discharge of electricity. Faraday.

To decompose by the direct action of electricity. Faraday.

ing circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain stationary. Faraday.

One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments. Faraday.

thirty, the name of Charles Darwin stands alongside of those of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday. Huxley.

oint in it is tangential with the direction of a short compass needle held at that point. Faraday. -- Line of life (Palmistry), a line on the inside of the hand, curving about the base of the thumb, supposed to indicate, by its form or position, the length of a person's life. -- Line of lines. See Gunter's line. --…