potentiometer (potenshiometer)

[L. potent i a, power, + Gr. μέτρον, measure.] An instrument used for measuring the difference of electrical potential between two points. There are many forms of the instrument, as the conditions under which it is used differ widely. The potentiometer employed its own working battery, mirror galvanometer, and Clark standard cell. Electric Rev. (Eng.), ΧΧV. 642. potentize (pō'ten-tiz), v. t.; pret. and pp. po tentized, ppr. potentizing. [ In the most characteristic feature of Hahnemann's practice - "the potentizing , " "dynamizing," of medicinal substances he appears to have been original. Encyc. Brit ., XII. 127. potently (po'tent-li), adv. 1. In a potent man (-riz). [ potentiarius , potent i a , pow- invested with or a uming power; one having ner; with potency; powerfully; with great en- er: see potence. Cf. plenipotentiary.] A person authority or influence. The last great potentiary had arrived who was to take part in the family congre . Thackeray , New comes, xxx. potentiate (pō-ten's hi-āt), v . t .; pret. and pp. potentiated , ppr. potentiating . [L. as if *po tent i at us , potent i a , power: see potence .] To give power to. Substantiated and succe ively potentiated by an especial divine grace. Cole ridge. The power of the steam-engine derives its force and effect, its working capacity, from the appliances by which it is potentiated -i. e., from road-beds, rolling-stock, etc., in railroads, and from fly-wheels, cog-wheels, spindles, etc., in manufactories. Amer . Anthropologist , I. 20.