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An electronic measuring instrument which provides a visual representation of the time variation of electrical quantities such as voltage or current It may be used to measure the shape of a voltage pulse or the frequency of an oscillating voltage It can also be used to measure properties of other physical variables such as sound or light intensity if they can be translated into electrical voltage or current...
Conduit system
A system of electric traction esp for light railways in which the actuating current passes along a wire or rail laid in an underground conduit from which the current is ldquopicked uprdquo by a plow or other device fixed to the car or electric locomotive Hence Conduit railway...
Finsen light
Highly actinic light derived from sunlight or from some form of electric lamp used in the treatment of lupus and other cutaneous affections...
Physics
The science of nature or of natural objects that branch of science which treats of the laws and properties of matter and the forces acting upon it especially that department of natural science which treats of the causes as gravitation heat light magnetism electricity etc that modify the general properties of bodies natural philosophy...
Phenomenon
An appearance anything visible whatever in matter or spirit is apparent to or is apprehended by observation as the phenomena of heat light or electricity phenomena of imagination or memory...
Flash burner
A gas burner with a device for lighting by an electric spark...
Photochronograph
An instrument for recording minute intervals of time The record is made by the power of a magnetic field due to an electric signaling current to turn the plane of polarization of light A flash coinciding in time and duration with the signal is thus produced and is photographed on a moving plate...
Attachment
Attachment, in relation to building, includes lamps, brackets, pipes, electric lines and apparatus required for street lighting purposes, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 400, Note 3, p. 291.Attachment means prohibition of transfer, conversion, disposition or movement of property by an order issued under Chapter III. [Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, (15 of 2003), s. 2(d)]A process from a Court of Record, awarded by the judges at their discretion on a bare suggestion, or on their own knowledge, against a person guilty of a contempt, who is punishable in a summary manner. Contempts may be thus classed. (1) Disobedience to the King's writs; (2) Contempt in the face of a Court; (3) Contemptuous words or writings concerning a Court; (4) Refusing to comply with the rules and awards of a Court; (5) Abuse of the process of a Court, and (6) Forgery of writs, or any other deceit tending to impose on a Court, Leach's Hawk. P. Cr., c. 22, s. 33. The issue of writs of attachm...
Service
Service [fr. servitium, Lat.], that duty which a tenant, by reason of his estate, owes to his lord. There are many divisions of this duty in our ancient law books, as into personal and real, which is either urbane or rustic, free and base, continua land annual, casual and accidental, intrinsic and extrinsic, certain and uncertain, etc. see TENURE.The formal delivery of a writ, summons of other legal process 2. The formal delivery of some other legal notice such as pleading, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1372.The formal mode of bringing a writ or other process, or a notice in a suit, to the knowledge of the person affected by it.The service of writs of summons is regulated by (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. IX., which by r. 1 dispenses wit service, when (as is usual) the defendant, by his solicitor, agrees to accept service, and enters an appearance. By r. 2, service, when required, must be personal, unless an order for 'substituted service, or the substitution of notice for service,...
Rate
Rate, A contribution levied by some public body for a public purpose, as a poor rate, a highway rate, a sewers rate, upon, as a general rule, the occupiers of property within a parish or other area.Proportional or relative value; the proportion of which quantity or value is adjusted, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1268.The term 'rate' is also used to mean a charge by a water, gas, railway, or other public undertaking for services rendered e.g., (English) Railways Act, 1921, s. 20; Metropolitan Water Board Charges Act, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. xciv.).The poor rate was levied under the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601 (43 Eliz. s. 2), on the occupiers in each parish of 'lands, houses, tithes, coal mines, or saleable underwoods,' and the (English) Rating Act, 1874, extended the liability to rates to: (1) land used for a plantation or a wood, or for the growth of saleable underwood, and not subject to any right of common; (2) rights of fowling, shooting, taking, or killing game, or ra...
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