The loafing or astatic mind will fall into morbid tendencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference

This coil, etc., may be used in connection with an astatic needle.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity] Reference

Horizontal and vertical astatic system are also used -- Figs. 18, 18a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888] Reference

The presence of the current is easily shown with the astatic detectors.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity] Reference

By this the astatic needle is suspended and protected from air currents.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity] Reference

This magnet is capable of rendering the needle less sensitive or of making it astatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884] Reference

The most convenient way will be to use two coils, one on each side of the astatic needle.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity] Reference

Hang the astatic needle so that the wire between the two parts will not quite touch the coil.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity] Reference

There is much worry and misery in the world because so many are astatic, like a compass that has lost its loadstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference

We can increase the strength of the field about the needle, and at the same time decrease its pointing-power by using an astatic needle.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity] Reference

For a description of the wood-work, coil, etc., see App. 112; for the astatic needle see App. 69; for the method of supporting the needle see App. 113, Fig. 86.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity] Reference

Such a helix is caused to stand between the two poles N'S 'of an astatic system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

Sports fans are astatic with the idea of a chance to receive an "unforgettable major league experience.".    From Wordnik.com.  [TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends] Reference

When it is so far sunk that its lower end rests upon the table, the upper end finds itself between the poles N´S´ of the astatic system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

Then along the brow of the pass writhed a wisp of drifting, twisting flakelets, idling hither and yon, astatic and aimless, settling in a hollow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pardners] Reference

It is manifest that if a second helix be placed between the poles SN with a cylinder within it, the action upon the astatic magnet may be exalted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

The iron cylinder is thus converted into a strong magnet, attracting one of the poles, and repelling the other, and consequently deflecting the entire astatic system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

If females of astatic age accept to be appointed these medicines, digit types of contraception should be followed during the activity and digit months afterwards the inactivity of medication.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

The decomposing wire and solution of iodide of potassium were then removed, and replaced by a very delicate galvanometer (205.); it was so nearly astatic, that it vibrated to and fro in about sixty-three beats of a watch giving one hundred and fifty beats in a minute.    From Wordnik.com.  [Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1] Reference

Unstable; in neutral equilibrium; Electricity, not tending to assume a definite position. astatic pair, pair of magnetized needles of opposite charges. astatics.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference