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Acid
noun · 78% connection
One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetab…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: electric, virtue, peculiar, properties, capable.
Amber
noun · 78% connection
A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: electric, virtue, peculiar, properties, capable.
Anelectric
adjective · 78% connection
Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: electric, virtue, peculiar, properties, capable.
Aretaics
noun · 78% connection
The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: electric, virtue, peculiar, properties, capable.
As
adv. & conj. · 78% connection
In the idea, character, or condition of, -- limiting the view to certain attributes or relations; as, virtue considered as virtue; thi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: electric, virtue, peculiar, properties, capable.
Attrition
noun · 78% connection
The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: electric, virtue, peculiar, properties, capable.
Brake
verb · 78% connection
An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: electric, virtue, peculiar, properties, capable.
Cathode
noun · 78% connection
The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the ele…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: electric, virtue, peculiar, properties, capable.
Converse
noun · 78% connection
A proposition which arises from interchanging the terms of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: electric, virtue, peculiar, properties, capable.
Crampfish
noun · 78% connection
The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: electric, virtue, peculiar, properties, capable.
Descent
noun · 78% connection
Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lowe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: electric, virtue, peculiar, properties, capable.
Dielectric
noun · 78% connection
Any substance or medium that transmits the electric force by a process different from conduction, as in the phenomena of induction; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: electric, virtue, peculiar, properties, capable.
Electric energy
noun · 78% connection
(physics) the potential energy of an electric charge in an electric field, or of an electric current in a magnetic field.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: electric, virtue, peculiar, properties, capable.
Electrical
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to electricity; consisting of, containing, derived from, or produced by, electricity; as, electric power or virtue; an elec…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: electric, virtue, peculiar, properties, capable.
Electrify
verb · 78% connection
To excite suddenly and violently, esp. by something highly delightful or inspiriting; to thrill; as, this patriotic sentiment electrif…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: electric, virtue, peculiar, properties, capable.
Electro-dynamical
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: electric, virtue, peculiar, properties, capable.
Electro-polar
adjective · 78% connection
Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conduc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: electric, virtue, peculiar, properties, capable.
Electro-telegraphy
noun · 78% connection
The art or science of constructing or using the electric telegraph; the transmission of messages by means of the electric telegraph.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: electric, virtue, peculiar, properties, capable.