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- noun Plural form of
voltmeter .
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This 15-day course taught students to manufacture suicide belts, how to tuck the belts around their waists and how to test the battery and voltmeters.
The Profiling Prof 2009
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A number of radioactive devices serving as resistors, electrostatic voltmeters, leveling systems, and micrometers took up Blau's creative time.
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Here, it will suffice to know that the current can be measured by means of ammeters and the voltage by means of voltmeters with adequate accuracy.
3. Electric Circuits 1991
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The well known ammeters and voltmeters of the authors used for electric light work are now constructed so as to dispense with
Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 Various
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Physical Society their new ammeters and voltmeters, also a non-sparking key.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 Various
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Both voltmeters are fitted with keys, so that they are only put in circuit when the readings are taken.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 Various
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The electrical power they could measure accurately and easily by simple voltmeters and ammeters.
Empire Clifford D. Simak 1946
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The Sunbury generating plant consisted of an Armington & Sims engine driving two small Edison dynamos having a total capacity of about four hundred lamps of 16 c.p. The indicating instruments were of the crudest construction, consisting of two voltmeters connected by ` ` pressure wires '' to the centre of electrical distribution.
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The Sunbury generating plant consisted of an Armington & Sims engine driving two small Edison dynamos having a total capacity of about four hundred lamps of 16 c.p. The indicating instruments were of the crudest construction, consisting of two voltmeters connected by "pressure wires" to the centre of electrical distribution.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905
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On a perfectly steady water-tank load, for example, it may be sufficiently adequate to read all wattmeters, voltmeters, and ammeters from standard instruments at from one - to two-minute intervals.
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