Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Electric arc   /ɪlˈɛktrɪk ɑrk/   Listen
Electric arc

noun
1.
Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.  Synonyms: arc, discharge, electric discharge, spark.





WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar




"Electric arc" Quotes from Famous Books



... see his infant dynamo, the first of its kind, developed into a machine not only sufficiently powerful to maintain electric arc lights, but also into a form sufficiently practicable to be continuously engaged in producing such light, in one of the lighthouses on the English coast. Holmes produced such a machine in 1862, or some years before Faraday's ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIV • John Lord


Words linked to "Electric arc" :   corona discharge, brush discharge, Saint Ulmo's fire, electric glow, electrical conduction, corona, corposant, arc, Saint Elmo's light, Saint Elmo's fire, Saint Ulmo's light, St. Elmo's fire, flashover


Copyright © 2025 Dictionary One.com