You searched for: “electrokinetograph”
electrokinetograph
1. A device designed to measure the speed of ocean currents, based on their electrical effects in the earth's magnetic field.
2. An instrument used to measure ocean current velocities based on their electrical effects in the magnetic field of the earth.
3. A device for determining the motion of ocean water by measuring its electric potentials as it moves through the earth's magnetic field.
This entry is located in the following units: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 33) grapho-, graph-, -graph, -graphy, -grapher, -graphia (page 29) kine-, kin-, kino-, kinesio-, kinesi-, kineto-, kinet-, -kinesia, -kinesis, -kinetic, -kinesias, -kineses, -kinetical, -kinetically (page 5)
Word Entries containing the term: “electrokinetograph”
geomagnetic electrokinetograph (s) (noun), geomagnetic electrokinetographs (pl)
An instrument that can be suspended from the side of a moving ship to measure and to calculate the direction and speed of ocean currents: A geomagnetic electrokinetograph is used while the ship is underway by measuring the voltage produced by the Earth's magnetic field in the moving conductive seawater.
This entry is located in the following units: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 92) geo-, ge- + (page 13) grapho-, graph-, -graph, -graphy, -grapher, -graphia (page 38)