reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
a system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region
a perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material
an electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube
a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat
a pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines