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Electrician :: Electrician (n.) An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.

Irritation :: Irritation (n.) The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation..

Battery :: Battery (v. t.) An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity.

Electrification :: Electrification (n.) The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity..

Electrocute :: Electrocute (v. t.) To execute or put to death by electricity. -- E*lec`tro*cution, n. [Recent; Newspaper words].

Dynamo-electric :: Dynamo-electric (a.) Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power..

Electropathy :: Electropathy (n.) The treatment of disease by electricity.

Electrogeny :: Electrogeny (n.) A term sometimes applied to the effects (tetanus) produced in the muscles of the limbs, when a current of electricity is passed along the spinal cord or nerves..

Electro-engraving :: Electro-engraving (n.) The art or process of engraving by means of electricity.

Imponderable :: Imponderable (n.) An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism, regarded as subtile fluids destitute of weight but in modern science little used..

Electro-gilding :: Electro-gilding (n.) The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity..

Thunder :: Thunder (n.) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.

Farad :: Farad (n.) The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive force of one volt..

Launch :: Launch (n.) The boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like..

Nonconducting :: Nonconducting (a.) Not conducting; not transmitting a fluid or force; thus, in electricity, wax is a nonconducting substance..

Insulate :: Insulate (v. t.) To prevent the transfer o/ electricity or heat to or from (bodies) by the interposition of nonconductors.

Incoercible :: Incoercible (a.) That can note be confined in, or excluded from, vessels, like ordinary fluids, gases, etc.; -- said of the imponderable fluids, heat, light, electricity, etc..

Insulated :: Insulated (p. a.) Separated from other bodies by means of nonconductors of heat or electricity.

Telpherage :: Telpherage (n.) The conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity.

Electrograph :: Electrograph (n.) A mark, record, or tracing, made by the action of electricity..

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