Corregidor

(kör-rěj'e-dor.) [Sp.] A Spanish police officer. Correlation of the Physical Forces, (kõr-relā'shun.) (Phy.) The principle that any one of the various forms of physical force maybe converted into one or more of the other forms. Thus, heat may mediately or immediately produce electricity, electricity may produce heat, and so of the rest, each merging itself as the force it produces becomes developed, and that the same must hold good of other forces, it being an irresistible inference from observed phenomena that a force cannot originate otherwise than by devolution from pre-existing force or forces. This principle is also called Transmutation of Energy. [s. 231]