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单词 quantity galvanometer
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quantity galvanometer
a. In sense ‘relating to electric current’ (with allusion to the quantity of electricity flowing), as opposed to electromotive force; as quantity battery, quantity fuse, quantity galvanometer, quantity inductor, etc. Now historical and rare.
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1838 Morning Chron. in H. M. Noad Lect. on Electricity (1849) ix. 401 The decomposing power of the quantity inductor.
1849 H. M. Noad Lect. Electr. (ed. 3) 397 One..is used for quantity effects, such as igniting platinum wire.
1850 Mechanics' Mag. 52 247/2 We further claim the triode in its combination with quantity galvanometers, that is, with such galvanometers as give a palpable indication of the change, when any resistance is added to or taken from the circuit of such electric currents as they are fitted to measure.
1857 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 20 Feb. 212/1 If a quantity battery were used, a short thick coil was preferable; but with an intensity battery a much longer wire would produce the same effects.
1880 Science 11 Sept. 128 A piece of iron so surrounded by a number of separate coils that its magnetism could be fully developed by a quantity battery.
1881 E. Pornain Sea Terms & Phrases Eng. & Fr. (ed. 2) 99 Quantity fuse, une amorce de quantité.
1883 F. Jenkin Electr. & Magn. (ed. 7) 190 The term..‘quantity galvanometer’ [is used to signify] an instrument with few turns of thick wire.
2004 R. Burns Communications iii. 84 It was Henry who, by counselling Morse to abandon the employment of a ‘quantity’ battery and a ‘quantity’ coil and to use instead an ‘intensity’ battery and an ‘intensity’ coil, provided the solution which allowed Morse to be successful.
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