rheotrope
English
Alternative forms
- reotrope
Etymology
rheo- + -trope
Noun
rheotrope (plural rheotropes)
- An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric current.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rheotrope in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)