Definition of electroscope. Meaning of electroscope. Synonyms of electroscope

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Definition of electroscope

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Cinematograph Cin`e*mat"o*graph, n. [Gr. ?, ?, motion + -graph.] 1. A machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 a second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture machine; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other common names for the cinematograph are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zo["o]gyroscope, zo["o]praxiscope, etc.

Meaning of electroscope from wikipedia

- The electroscope is an early scientific instrument used to detect the presence of electric charge on a body. It detects charge by the movement of a test...
- be demonstrated using a gold-leaf electroscope, which is an instrument for detecting electric charge. The electroscope is first discharged, and a charged...
- instrument, the electroscope, works on similar principles but only indicates the relative magnitudes of voltages or charges. The gold-leaf electroscope was one...
- results of radioactive disintegration on a fluorescent screen, and an electroscope measuring the radioactivity of different substances in the set. Gilbert's...
- close proximity to an electroscope would discharge a positively charged electroscope, but not a negatively charged electroscope. In 1880, Thomas Edison...
- ultraviolet light, on charged bodies. Hallwachs connected a zinc plate to an electroscope. He allowed ultraviolet light to fall on a freshly cleaned zinc plate...
- a gold-leaf electroscope, but modern demonstrations often use a modern electrometer because it is far more sensitive than an electroscope, can distinguish...
- work in electrostatics, particularly the invention of the pith ball electroscope, and his studies in atmospheric electricity. He is honoured with a blue...
- Volume 9.1:   Edwardes  –   Ehrenbreitstein Volume 9.2:   Ehud  –   Electroscope Volume 9.3:   Electrostatics  –   Engis Volume 9.4:   England  –   English...
- frog's leg galvanoscope, frog galvanometer, rheoscopic frog, and frog electroscope. The device is properly called a galvanoscope rather than galvanometer...