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Telegraphs

for the purpose of telegraphic communication, and any apparatus for transmitting messages or other communications by mans of electric signals (Acts of 1863, s. 3, and 1869, s. 3). This definition includes telephones. The destruction or removal

Cathode

The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes or the surface at which the electric current passes out of

Full compensation

Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 16), Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Railways,' and s. 17 of the Electric Lighting Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 56), ibid., tit. 'Electric Lighting,' by which 'full compensation' is

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Firmware

that it is 'burned' into a chip, thereby becoming firmware. The computer program is written into the PROM electrically at higher-than-usual voltage, causing the bits to 'retain' the pattern as it is 'burned in'. Firmware is non-volatile.

Factory

is clear that it must be a premises where a manufacturing process is carried on, Workmen of Delhi Electric Supply Undertaking v. Management of Delhi Electric Supply Undertaking, AIR 1973 SC 365: (1974) 3 SCC 108. Department

Silundum

A form of silicon carbide produced in the electric furnace possessing great hardness and high electrical resistance and not subject to oxidation below 2880deg F or 1600deg

Selenium

or as a dark metallic looking substance It exhibits under the action of light a remarkable variation in electric conductivity and is used in certain electric apparatus Symbol Se Atomic weight 7896

oscilloscope

An electronic measuring instrument which provides a visual representation of the time variation of electrical quantities such as voltage or

motor driven

Driven or actuated by a motor esp by an individual electric motor An electric motor forms an integral part of many machine tools in numerous modern machine shops

male plug

The connecting end of the cord on an electrical device having two or three pins that is inserted into a matching socket to make an electrical connection

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