an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally; "In the US most household current is AC at 60 cycles per second"
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering.No hand-reviewed synonym set has been published for this word yet.
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an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally; "In the US most household current is AC at 60 cycles per second"
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering.an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally; "In the US most household current is AC at 60 cycles per second"
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering.To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Chemistry, Materials chemistry, Condensed matter.an electric current that flows in one direction steadily
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering.an electric current that flows in one direction steadily
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering.an electric current that flows in one direction steadily
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering.energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor; "they built a car that runs on electricity"; "The power went…
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering.A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, th…
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering.A piece.
Used in the same subject area: Physics, Chemistry, Materials chemistry, Condensed matter.To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion o…
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering.Same as Poor, the fish.
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering.A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, whi…
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering.Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Chemistry, Engineering.One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin.
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Engineering.The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly…
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Engineering.One who, or that which, limits.
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Engineering.A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.
Used in the same subject area: Electrical engineering, Physics, Engineering.Words connected by meaning
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Sulphide of silver; -- also called vitreous silver, or silver glance. It has a metallic luster, a lead-gray color, and is sectile like…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.White lead, used as a pigment. See White lead, under White.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.To lead about; to lead astray.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also red lead ore.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.A plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants (whence its name), but now made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consist…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.Any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chron…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.A remedy or antidose for poison; theriaca.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.A lead-gray or grayish blue mineral with a metallic luster, consisting of sulphur, antimony, and lead, with a small proportion of arse…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.A variety of white lead. See Krems lead, under Lead, n.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lead.Explore Academic Dictionary
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