| wheatstone | (n) English physicist and inventor who devised the Wheatstone bridge (1802-1875), Syn. Sir Charles Wheatstone |
| wheatstone bridge | (n) a bridge used to measure resistances |
| Wheatstone's bridge | (Elec.) See under Bridge. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Wheatstone's rods | . (Acoustics) Flexible rods the period of vibration of which in two planes at right angles are in some exact ratio to one another. When one end of such a rod is fixed, the free end describes in vibrating the corresponding Lissajous figure. So called because devised by Sir Charles Wheatstone. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] |