calorimotor
English
Etymology
Latin calor (“heat”) + English motor.
Noun
calorimotor (plural calorimotors)
- A voltaic battery with a large surface of plate, producing powerful heating effects.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 calorimotor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)