In telegraphy an instrument for repeating the signals through a second line. It is virtually a relay which is operated by the sender, and which in turn operates the rest of the main line, being situated itself at about the middle point of the distance covered. In the simpler forms of repeater two relays are [...]

In a system of plane co-ordinates (see Co-ordinates) the distance of any point from the axis of ordinates measured parallel to the axis of abscissas. In the cut the abscissa of the point a is the line or distance a c. Fig. 1. AXES OF CO-ORDINATES

In medical electricity, the region surrounding the electrode applied to the human body.

In medical electricity, the region surrounding the polar zone, q. v.

An apparatus used in telegraphy for sending a momentary reverse current into the line after each signal, thus counteracting retardation.

The terminal connecting with the zinc plate, or its equivalent in an electric circuit; the negative electrode; the kathode. A term now little used.

A metal; one of the elements; atomic weight, 65.1; specific gravity, 6.8 to 7.2. microhms. Resistance at 0° C. (32° F.), per centimeter cube,   5.626 Resistance at 0° C. (32° F.), per inch cube,         2.215 Relative resistance (silver = 1),                    3.741 ohms. Resistance of a wire, 1 foot long, weighing 1 grain,   .5766 (a) 1 [...]

There are three thermometric zeros. In the Réaumur and centigrade scales, it is at the temperature of melting ice; in the Fahrenheit scale, it is 32° F. below that temperature, or corresponds to -17.78° C. The third is the absolute zero. (See Zero, Absolute.)

Conventionally, the potential of the earth. True zero potential could only exist in the surface of a body infinitely distant from other electrified bodies.

From several considerations it is believed that at a certain temperature the molecules of all bodies would touch each other, their kinetic motion would cease, and there would be no heat. This temperature is the absolute zero. It is put at -273° C. (-459° F.) [Transcriber's note; The modern value is 0° Kelvin,  -273.15° C, [...]