Vibration

Vibration. This may amount to a nuisance, but regard must be had to the character of the locality, Polsue, etc., Ltd. v. Rushmer, 1907 AC 121, and the aggrieved person is usually entitled to an injunc-tion as well as damages, Shelfer v. City of London Electric Lighting Co., (1895) 1 Ch 287....

Master vibrator

In an internal combustion engine with two or more cylinders an induction coil and vibrator placed in the circuit between the battery or magneto and the coils for the different cylinders which are used without vibrators of their own...

Diadrom

A complete course or vibration time of vibration as of a pendulum...

Kaleidophon

An instrument invented by Professor Wheatstone consisting of a reflecting knob at the end of a vibrating rod or thin plate for making visible in the motion of a point of light reflected from the knob the paths or curves corresponding with the musical notes produced by the vibrations...

Harmoniphon

An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard in which the sound which resembled the oboe was produced by the vibration of thin metallic plates acted upon by blowing through a tube...

Heat

A force in nature which is recognized in various effects but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation and which as manifested in fire the suns rays mechanical action chemical combination etc becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling In its nature heat is a mode of motion being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration It was formerly supposed to be a subtile imponderable fluid to which was given the name caloric...

Isochronize

To make or tend to make the motion of a moving body uniform in rate of rotation or in frequency of vibration...

Nonconductor

A substance which does not conduct that is convey or transmit heat electricity sound vibration or the like or which transmits them with difficulty an insulator as wool is a nonconductor of heat glass and dry wood are nonconductors of electricity...

Snoring

The act of respiring through the open mouth so that the currents of inspired and expired air cause a vibration of the uvula and soft palate thus giving rise to a sound more or less harsh It is usually unvoluntary but may be produced voluntarily...

Harmonicon

A small flat wind instrument of music in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds it is now called the harmonica...

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