Electricity

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1. Noun

A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direction in which involves polarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by attraction for many substances, by a law involving attraction between surfaces of unlike polarity, and repulsion between those of like; by exhibiting accumulated polar tension when the circuit is broken; and by producing heat, light, co

A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direction in which involves polarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by attraction for many substances, by a law involving attraction between surfaces of unlike polarity, and repulsion between those of like; by exhibiting accumulated polar tension when the circuit is broken; and by producing heat, light, concussion, and often chemical changes when the circuit passes between the poles or through any imperfectly conducting substance or space. It is generally brought into action by any disturbance of molecular equilibrium, whether from a chemical, physical, or mechanical, cause.

2. Noun

The science which unfolds the phenomena and laws of electricity; electrical science.

3. Noun

Fig.: Electrifying energy or characteristic.

4. Noun

The set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of electric charge

5. Noun

energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor; "they built a car that runs on electricity"; "The power went out around midnight"
Vocabulary classified under Physics

6. Noun

keen and shared excitement; "the stage crackled with electricity whenever she was on it"
Vocabulary classified under Emotion and tone
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