Leyden Jar - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: leyden jarLeyden jar
A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity It is coated with tin foil within and without nearly to its top and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating for the purpose of charging it with electricity It is so named from having been invented in Leyden Holland...
Discharger
One who or that which discharges Specifically in electricity an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar or electrical battery by making a connection between the two surfaces a discharging rod...
canopic jar
a jar used in ancient Egyptian tombs to contain the intestines of a person who was mummified for burial also called canopic vase...
Jarringly
In a jarring or discordant manner...
Elzevir
Applied to books or editions esp of the Greek New Testament and the classics printed and published by the Elzevir family at Amsterdam Leyden etc from about 1592 to 1680 also applied to a round open type introduced by them...
Bell jar
A glass vessel varying in size open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it It is used for a great variety of purposes as with the air pump and for holding gases also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view...
Buffer
An elastic apparatus or fender for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies as a buffer at the end of a railroad car...
Crouke
A crock a jar...
Electric
Pertaining to electricity consisting of containing derived from or produced by electricity as electric power or virtue an electric jar electric effects an electric spark an electric charge an electric current an electrical engineer...
Electrify
To communicate electricity to to charge with electricity as to electrify a jar...
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