n. [ Gr. kinhto`s movable + E. genesis. ] (Biol.) The doctrine or hypothesis that animal structures have been produced, directly or indirectly, by animal movements. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; movable + -graph. ] (Physics) (a) A camera for making chronophotographs. [ obsolescent ] (b) A machine for the projection of chronophotographs upon a screen for the purpose of producing the effect of an animated picture. [ obsolescent ] (c) A combined animated-picture machine and phonograph in which sounds appropriate to the scene are automatically uttered by the latter instrument. It has been superseded by recording techniques allowing the sounds to be recorded directly on the motion-picture film. [ obsolescent ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. [ See Kinetic, Phone. ] A machine combining a kinetoscope and a phonograph synchronized so as to reproduce a scene and its accompanying sounds. It has been superseded by recording techniques allowing the sounds to be recorded directly on the motion-picture film. [ obsolescent ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. [ Originally a tradename, 1894. ] An obsolete form of moving picture viewer, in which a film carrying successive instantaneous views of a moving scene travels uniformly through the field of a magnifying glass. The observer sees each picture, momentarily, through a slit in a revolving disk, and these glimpses, blended by persistence of vision, give the impression of continuous motion. It has been superseded by more recent versions of movie projector and electronic video viewers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. kinhto`s movable + -scope. ] An instrument for producing curves by the combination of circular movements; -- called also kinescope. Cope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small electric generator with an armature rotating in a magnetic field, having a secondary winding that generates a high voltage, such as one used to generate a voltage sufficient to cause a spark to jump between the poles of a spark plug in an internal-combustion engine. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pref. [ See Magnet. ] A prefix meaning pertaining to, produced by, or in some way connected with, magnetism. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Physics) Pertaining to, or characterized by, electricity by the action of magnets; as, magneto-electric induction. [ 1913 Webster ]

Magneto-electric machine, a form of dynamo-electric machine in which the field is maintained by permanent steel magnets instead of electro-magnets. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Electricity evolved by the action of magnets. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physics) That branch of science which treats of the development of electricity by the action of magnets; -- the counterpart of electro-magnetism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Magneto- + -graph. ] (Physics) An automatic instrument for registering, by photography or otherwise, the states and variations of any of the terrestrial magnetic elements. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The study of the interaction of magnetic fields with electrically conductive fluids, such as a plasma or a molten metal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Magneto- + -meter: cf. F. magnétomètre. ] (Physics) An instrument for measuring the intensity of magnetic forces; also, less frequently, an instrument for determining any of the terrestrial magnetic elements, as the dip and declination. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or employed in, the measurement of magnetic forces; obtained by means of a magnetometer; as, magnetometric instruments; magnetometric measurements. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Magneto- + motive, a. ] (Elec.) Pertaining to, or designating, a force producing magnetic flux, analogous to electromotive force, and equal to the magnetic flux multiplied by the magnetic reluctance. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The force that produces magnetic flux. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A voltaic series of two or more large plates, producing a great quantity of electricity of low tension, and hence adapted to the exhibition of electro-magnetic phenomena. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A unit of magnetic moment for a subatomic particle, atom, or molecule. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the magnetic field of a planet; the volume around the planet in which charged particles are subject more to the planet's magnetic field than to the solar magnetic field. [ WordNet 1.6 ]

n. (Med.) The treatment of disease by the application of magnets to the surface of the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Phenyl + ethyl + L. oleum oil. ] (Chem.) The ethyl ether of phenol, obtained as an aromatic liquid, C6H5.O.C2H5. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Planet + -oid. ] (Astron.) A body resembling a planet; an asteroid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to a planetoid. [ 1913 Webster ]