The little schoolhouse with its flagpole on top and its two doors in front, one for boys and the other for girls, stood on the crest of a hill, with rolling fields and meadows on one side, a stretch of pine woods on the other, and the river glinting and sparkling in the distance.
An ohmmeter is a device that measures the amount of electrical friction generated as electrons pass through an electrical conductor.
Definition of eccentric. 1  1 : a mechanical device consisting of an eccentric (see 1eccentric 2b) disk communicating its motion to a rod so as to produce reciprocating motion. 2  2 : a person who behaves in odd or unusual ways : an eccentric person.