Definition of elect

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Elect (v. t.) To designate, choose, or select, as an object of mercy or favor..

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Processional :: Processional (n.) A hymn, or other selection, sung during a church procession; as, the processional was the 202d hymn..
Prox :: Prox (n.) The ticket or list of candidates at elections, presented to the people for their votes..
Armature :: Armature (n.) A piece of soft iron used to connect the two poles of a magnet, or electro-magnet, in order to complete the circuit, or to receive and apply the magnetic force. In the ordinary horseshoe magnet, it serves to prevent the dissipation of the magnetic force..
Picked :: Picked (a.) Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men..
Faradic :: Faradic (a.) Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; -- applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday's investigations of their laws..
Psychogenesis :: Psychogenesis (n.) Genesis through an internal force, as opposed to natural selection..
Electrine :: Electrine (a.) Made of electrum, an alloy used by the ancients..
Geissler Tube :: Geissler tube () A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Plucker tube, from the German physicist who devised it..
Charge :: Charge (v. t.) To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc..
Culler :: Culler (n.) One who picks or chooses; esp., an inspector who selects wares suitable for market..
Electro-tint :: Electro-tint (n.) A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing..
Choose :: Choose (v. t.) To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils..
Pyromagnetic :: Pyromagnetic (a.) Acting by the agency of heat and magnetism; as, a pyromagnetic machine for producing electric currents..
Raash :: Raash (n.) The electric catfish.
Electro-polar :: Electro-polar (a.) Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor..
Amperometer :: Amperometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the strength of an electrical current in amperes.
Electuaries :: Electuaries (pl. ) of Electuar.
Selectman :: Selectman (n.) One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New England States to transact the general public business of the town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town..
Draft :: Draft (v. t.) To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select..
Electrician :: Electrician (n.) An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
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