Definition of Electrodynamometer

1. Noun. Measuring instrument that uses the interaction of the magnetic fields of two coils to measure current or voltage or power.


Definition of Electrodynamometer

1. n. An instrument for measuring the strength of electro-dynamic currents.

Definition of Electrodynamometer

1. Noun. An instrument, having a fixed and a moveable coil, that measures the power flowing in an electric circuit; a type of wattmeter. ¹

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Medical Definition of Electrodynamometer

1. An instrument for measuring the strength of electrodynamic currents. (03 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Electrodynamometer

electrodiagnostic
electrodiagnostically
electrodialyses
electrodialysis
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electrodiffusion
electrodiffusional
electrodiffusive
electrodisintegration
electrodispersion
electrodynamic
electrodynamic force
electrodynamical
electrodynamically
electrodynamics
electrodynamometer (current term)
electrodynamometers
electroed
electroeluted
electroelution
electroencephalogram
electroencephalograms
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electroencephalographic dysrhythmia
electroencephalographical
electroencephalographically
electroencephalographies
electroencephalographs

Literary usage of Electrodynamometer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Laboratory Physics: A Students Manual for Colleges and Scientific Schools by Dayton Clarence Miller (1903)
"An electrodynamometer is an instrument for measuring the strength of a current by means of the attractions and repulsions between a fixed and a movable ..."

2. Elementary Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by George Carey Foster, Alfred William Porter, Jules François Joubert (1909)
"In Weber's electrodynamometer the movable coil is supported by a bifilar suspension, which at the same time serves to convey the current. ..."

3. Electrical Measurements by Frank Arthur Laws (1917)
"Theory of the Tubular electrodynamometer. — Suppose that two coaxial circular tubes are arranged as shown in Fig. 47, the directions of the current being as ..."

4. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1912)
"Copyright, 1912, By AIEE A TUBULAR electrodynamometer FOR HEAVY CURRENTS BY PG AGNEW THEORY OF INSTRUMENT To obtain the same current distribution for both ..."

5. Methods of Measuring Electrical Resistance by Edwin Fitch Northrup (1912)
"electrodynamometer Substitution Method (Author's Method). — This method has a much wider range of ... The electrodynamometer should be of the Rowland type. ..."

6. Principles of Electrical Measurements by Arthur Whitmore Smith (1914)
"If the electrodynamometer is set in such a position that the earth's field ... In order to use an electrodynamometer for the measurement of a current it is ..."

7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"MF of t he Clark cells employed was determined with a special form of electrodynamometer {Callendar, Phil. Trans. A. 313. p. 80, and found to be 1-4334 ..."

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