Magneto-: alternatives and connections

A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), d…

A prefix meaning about, around; -- used in words derived from the Latin.

A prefix meaning against, opposite or opposed to, contrary, or in place of; -- used in composition in many English words. It is often…

A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym.

A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a.

A prefix, from Gr. de`ka, signifying ten; specifically (Metric System), a prefix signifying the weight or measure that is ten times th…

A prefix, from L. dexter, meaning, pertaining to, or toward, the right

Distorted; misshapen.

A Latin prefix meaning out, out of, from; also, without. See Ex-.

A prefix or combining form signifying pertaining to electricity, produced by electricity, producing or employing electricity, etc.; as…

That branch of biology which treats of the electrical phenomena of living organisms.

Of, Pertaining to, or produced by, magnetism which is developed by the passage of an electric current.

The magnetism developed by a current of electricity; the science which treats of the development of magnetism by means of voltaic elec…

A prefix signifying in or into, used in many English words, chiefly those borrowed from the French. Some English words are written ind…

A prefix, meaning upon, beside, among, on the outside, above, over. It becomes ep-before a vowel, as in epoch, and eph-before a Greek…

A prefix, meaning equally; as, equidistant; equiangular.

A prefix from the latin preposition, ex, akin to Gr. 'ex or 'ek signifying out of, out, proceeding from. Hence, in composition, it sig…

To lay open; to expose to view; to examine.