| occupation occupancy moving in | the act of occupying or taking possession of a building, occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal |
| current intelligence | intelligence of all types and forms of immediate interest, usually disseminated without delays for evaluation or interpretation |
| reading meter reading | the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments, he has a job meter reading for the gas company |
choke choke coil
choking coil | a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current |
coil
spiral
volute
whorl
helix | a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops, a coil of rope |
| coil | reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit |
| coil | tubing that is wound in a spiral |
| coil | a contraceptive device placed inside a woman's womb |
| coil | a transformer that supplies high voltage to spark plugs in a gasoline engine |
coil spring
volute spring | a spring in the shape of a coil |
electric meter
power meter | a meter for measuring the amount of electric power used |
escalator
moving staircase
moving stairway | a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt |
field coil
field winding | the electric coil around a field magnet that produces the magneto motive force to set up the flux in an electric machine |
gas meter
gasometer | a meter for measuring the amount of gas flowing through a particular pipe |
| gravimeter gravity meter | a measuring instrument for measuring variations in the gravitational field of the earth |
| ignition coil | an induction coil that converts current from a battery into the high-voltage current required by spark plugs |
| induction coil | a coil for producing a high voltage from a low-voltage source |
light meter
exposure meter
photometer | photographic equipment that measures the intensity of light |
| meter | any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity |
| moving van | a van used for moving home or office furniture |
| parking meter | a coin-operated timer located next to a parking space, depositing money into it entitles you to park your car there for a specified length of time |
| postage meter | meter for bulk mailings that imprints correct prepaid postage on pieces of mail and records the total charge |
primary coil
primary winding
primary | coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit, current through the primary coil induces current in the secondary coil |
| rotor rotor coil | the rotating armature of a motor or generator |
secondary coil
secondary winding
secondary | coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil |
| spark coil | an induction coil used to create sparks |
stator
stator coil | mechanical device consisting of the stationary part of a motor or generator in or around which the rotor revolves |
| Tesla coil | a step-up transformer with an air core, used to produce high voltages at high frequencies |
| tickler coil | a small coil in series with the anode of a vacuum tube and coupled to the grid to provide feedback |
| water meter | meter for measuring the quantity of water passing through a particular outlet |
meter
metre
time | rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration |
reading meter reading
indication | a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument, he could not believe the meter reading, the barometer gave clear indications of an approaching storm |
heroic verse
heroic meter
heroic | a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes, dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter |
a movie
film picture moving picture
moving-picture show
motion picture
motion-picture show
picture show
pic
flick | a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement, they went to a movie every Saturday night, the film was shot on location |
meter
metre
measure beat cadence | (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse |
common measure
common meter | the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad |
| wave moving ridge | one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) |
tidal flow
tidal current | the water current caused by the tides |
riptide
rip current | a strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore |
current
stream | a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes), the raft floated downstream on the current, he felt a stream of air, the hose ejected a stream of water |
stream
flow
current | dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas, two streams of development run through American history, stream of consciousness, the flow of thought, the current of history |
mover
public mover
moving company
removal firm
removal company | a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another |
| meter maid | policewoman who is assigned to write parking tickets |
alternating current
AC
alternating electric current | an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally, In the US most household current is AC atcycles per second |
| current electric current | a flow of electricity through a conductor, the current was measured in amperes |
direct current
DC
direct electric current | an electric current that flows in one direction steadily |
| ocean current | the steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction |
| equatorial current | any of the ocean currents that flow westward at the equator |
| North Equatorial Current | an equatorial current that flows west across the Pacific just north of the equator |
| South Equatorial Current | an equatorial current that flows west across the Pacific just south of the equator |