English Explanatory Dictionary

calorimotor

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A voltaic battery, from the 19th century, with a large surface of plate, producing (by the then standards) powerful heating effects.

Word forms

calorimotor calorimotors

Etymology

Latin calor (“heat”) + English motor.

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