Definition of elect

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Elect (v. t.) To select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor..

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District :: District (n.) A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc..
Reader :: Reader (n.) A book containing a selection of extracts for exercises in reading; an elementary book for practice in a language; a reading book.
Excerption :: Excerption (n.) The act of excerpting or selecting.
Break :: Break (v. t.) An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current..
Thunder :: Thunder (n.) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
Evangelistary :: Evangelistary (n.) A selection of passages from the Gospels, as a lesson in divine service..
Alfenide :: Alfenide (n.) An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver.
Prelection :: Prelection (n.) A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.
Galvanometry :: Galvanometry (n.) The art or process of measuring the force of electric currents.
Electro-positive :: Electro-positive (a.) Hence: Positive; metallic; basic; -- distinguished from negative, nonmetallic, or acid..
Dielectric :: Dielectric (n.) Any substance or medium that transmits the electric force by a process different from conduction, as in the phenomena of induction; a nonconductor. separating a body electrified by induction, from the electrifying body..
Selector :: Selector (n.) One who selects.
Poll :: Poll (n.) Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election..
Pick :: Pick (v.) To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; -- often with out..
Subsextuple :: Subsesqui- () A prefix (also used adjectively) denoting the combination of constituents (especially electro-negative and electro-positive bodies) in the proportion of two to three; as, a subsesqui acetate, i. e., a salt having two equivalents of acetic acid to three of the base..
Glyphography :: Glyphography (n.) A process similar to etching, in which, by means of voltaic electricity, a raised copy of a drawing is made, so that it can be used to print from..
Connector :: Connector (n.) A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
Inductor :: Inductor (n.) That portion of an electrical apparatus, in which is the inducing charge or current..
Commutator :: Commutator (n.) A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction..
Picked :: Picked (a.) Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men..
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