Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A general name given by Ampère to the conductor joining the poles of a voltaic cell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current.
- noun One of the poles of a voltaic battery; an electrode.
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- noun obsolete, physics Any
wire ,electrode orconnector thatconducts electricity
Etymologies
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Examples
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From the above it will be observed that Ultzmann has paid much attention to these neuroses; but it will also be remarked that neither the balanitis, collection of infantile smegma, preputial adhesions nor irritations are taken into any account as possible factors of either dysuria or enuresis; he has followed more or less an electrical form of treatment for genito-urinary neuroses, the rectal rheophore being one of his favorite modes of treating enuresis; in his etiological views of these disturbances he has adhered more or less to the views of
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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