Definitions for Electricity
ɪ lɛkˈtrɪs ɪ ti, ˌi lɛk-elec·tric·i·ty

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 4 votes

1. electricitynoun

   a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons

2. electricity, electrical energynoun

   energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor

   "they built a car that runs on electricity"

3. electricitynoun

   keen and shared excitement

   "the stage crackled with electricity whenever she was on it"

GCIDERate this definition:2.7 / 3 votes

1. Electricitynoun

   (Physics) a property of certain of the fundamental particles of which matter is composed, called also electric charge, and being of two types, designated positive and negative; the property of electric charge on a particle or physical body creates a force field which affects other particles or bodies possessing electric charge; positive charges create a repulsive force between them, and negative charges also create a repulsive force. A positively charged body and a negatively charged body will create an attractive force between them. The unit of electrical charge is the coulomb, and the intensity of the force field at any point is measured in volts.

2. Electricitynoun

   any of several phenomena associated with the accumulation or movement of electrically charged particles within material bodies, classified as static electricity and electric current. Static electricity is often observed in everyday life, when it causes certain materials to cling together; when sufficient static charge is accumulated, an electric current may pass through the air between two charged bodies, and is observed as a visible spark; when the spark passes from a human body to another object it may be felt as a mild to strong painful sensation. Electricity in the form of electric current is put to many practical uses in electrical and electronic devices. Lightning is also known to be a form of electric current passing between clouds and the ground, or between two clouds. Electric currents may produce heat, light, concussion, and often chemical changes when passed between objects or through any imperfectly conducting substance or space. Accumulation of electrical charge or generation of a voltage differnce between two parts of a complex object may be caused by any of a variety of disturbances of molecular equilibrium, whether from a chemical, physical, or mechanical, cause. Electric current in metals and most other solid coductors is carried by the movement of electrons from one part of the metal to another. In ionic solutions and in semiconductors, other types of movement of charged particles may be responsible for the observed electrical current.

WiktionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. electricitynoun

   A form of energy usually carried by wires or supplied by batteries used to power machines and computing, communications, lighting, and heating devices.

2. electricitynoun

   A form of secondary energy, caused by the behavior of electrons and protons, properly called "electrical energy".

3. electricitynoun

   A fundamental attractive property of matter, appearing in negative and positive kinds.

4. electricitynoun

   The flow of charge carriers within a conductor, properly called "electric current".

5. electricitynoun

   The charge carriers within a conductor, properly called "electric charge".

6. electricitynoun

   A class of physical phenomena, related to flows and interactions of electric charge

7. electricitynoun

   A field of physical science and technology, concerned with the phenomena of electric charge

8. electricitynoun

   Excitement.

   Opening night for the new production had an electricity unlike other openings.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Electricitynoun

   A property in some bodies, whereby, when rubbed so as to grow warm, they draw little bits of paper, or such like substances, to them. John Quincy Such was the account given a few years ago of electricity; but the industry of the present age, first excited by the experiments of Gray, has discovered in electricity a multitude of philosophical wonders. Bodies electrified by a sphere of glass, turned nimbly round, not only emit flame, but may be fitted with such a quantity of the electrical vapour, as, if discharged at once upon a human body, would endanger life. The force of this vapour has hitherto appeared instantaneous, persons at both ends of a long chain seeming to be struck at once. The philosophers are now endeavouring to intercept the strokes of lightning.

   Etymology: from electrick.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Electricity

   Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described by Maxwell's equations. Various common phenomena are related to electricity, including lightning, static electricity, electric heating, electric discharges and many others. The presence of an electric charge, which can be either positive or negative, produces an electric field. The movement of electric charges is an electric current and produces a magnetic field. When a charge is placed in a location with a non-zero electric field, a force will act on it. The magnitude of this force is given by Coulomb's law. If the charge moves, the electric field would be doing work on the electric charge. Thus we can speak of electric potential at a certain point in space, which is equal to the work done by an external agent in carrying a unit of positive charge from an arbitrarily chosen reference point to that point without any acceleration and is typically measured in volts.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. electricity

   Electricity is a form of energy resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge. It is a secondary energy source that we get from the conversion of primary energy sources such as coal, natural gas, oil, or the sun’s rays. It is used to power electrical devices, including lights, appliances, and machinery. It can be generated through various means, including chemical reactions, heat, light, physical movement, and pressure.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Electricitynoun

   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. Electricitynoun

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

3. Electricitynoun

   fig.: Electrifying energy or characteristic

4. Etymology: [Cf. F. lectricit. See Electric.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Electricity

   Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and flow of electric charge. Electricity gives a wide variety of well-known effects, such as lightning, static electricity, electromagnetic induction and the flow of electrical current. In addition, electricity permits the creation and reception of electromagnetic radiation such as radio waves. In electricity, charges produce electromagnetic fields which act on other charges. Electricity occurs due to several types of physics: ⁕electric charge: a property of some subatomic particles, which determines their electromagnetic interactions. Electrically charged matter is influenced by, and produces, electromagnetic fields. ⁕electric current: a movement or flow of electrically charged particles, typically measured in amperes. ⁕electric field: an especially simple type of electromagnetic field produced by an electric charge even when it is not moving. The electric field produces a force on other charges in its vicinity. Moving charges additionally produce a magnetic field. ⁕electric potential: the capacity of an electric field to do work on an electric charge, typically measured in volts.

The Nuttall EncyclopediaRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Electricity

   the name given to a subtle agent called the electric fluid, latent in all bodies, and first evolved by friction, and which may manifest itself, under certain conditions, in brilliant flashes of light, or, when in contact with animals, in nervous shocks more or less violent. It is of two kinds, negative and positive, and as such exhibits itself in the polarity of the magnet, when it is called Magnetic (q. v.), and is excited by chemical action, when it is called Voltaic (q. v.).

U.S. National Library of MedicineRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. Electricity

   The physical effects involving the presence of electric charges at rest and in motion.

The Standard Electrical DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Electricity

   It is impossible in the existing state of human knowledge to give a satisfactory definition of electricity. The views of various authorities are given here to afford a basis for arriving at the general consensus of electricians. We have as yet no conception of electricity apart from the electrified body; we have no experience of its independent existence. (J. E. H. Gordon.) What is Electricity? We do not know, and for practical purposes it is not necessary that we should know. (Sydney F. Walker.) Electricity … is one of those hidden and mysterious powers of nature which has thus become known to us through the medium of effects. (Weale's Dictionary of Terms.) This word Electricity is used to express more particularly the cause, which even today remains unknown, of the phenomena that we are about to explain. (Amédée Guillemin.) Electricity is a powerful physical agent which manifests itself mainly by attractions and repulsions, but also by luminous and heating effects, by violent commotions, by chemical decompositions, and many other phenomena. Unlike gravity, it is not inherent in bodies, but it is evoked in them by a variety of causes … (Ganot's Physics.) Electricity and magnetism are not forms of energy; neither are they forms of matter. They may, perhaps, be provisionally defined as properties or conditions of matter; but whether this matter be the ordinary matter, or whether it be, on the other hand, that all-pervading ether by which ordinary matter is surrounded, is a question which has been under discussion, and which now may be fairly held to be settled in favor of the latter view. (Daniell's Physics.) The name used in connection with an extensive and important class of phenomena, and usually denoting the unknown cause of the phenomena or the science that treats of them. (Imperial Dictionary.) Electricity. . . is the imponderable physical agent, cause, force or the molecular movement, by which, under certain conditions, certain phenomena, chiefly those of attraction and repulsion, . . . are produced. (John Angell.) It has been suggested that if anything can rightly be called "electricity," this must be the ether itself; and that all electrical and magnetic phenomena are simply due to changes, strains and motions in the ether. Perhaps negative electrification. . .means an excess of ether, and positive electrification a defect of ether, as compared with the normal density. (W. Larden.) Electricity is the name given to the supposed agent producing the described condition (i. e. electrification) of bodies. (Fleeming Jenkin.) There are certain bodies which, when warm and dry, acquire by friction, the property of attracting feathers, filaments of silk or indeed any light body towards them. This property is called Electricity, and bodies which possess it are said to be electrified. (Linnaeus Cumming.) What electricity is it is impossible to say, but for the present it is convenient to look upon it as a kind of invisible something which pervades all bodies. (W. Perren Maycock.) What is electricity? No one knows. It seems to be one manifestation of the energy which fills the universe and which appears in a variety of other forms, such as heat, light, magnetism, chemical affinity, mechanical motion, etc. (Park Benjamin.) The theory of electricity adopted throughout these lessons is, that electricity, whatever its true nature, is one, not two; that this Electricity, whatever it may prove to be, is not matter, and is not energy; that it resembles both matter and energy in one respect, however, in that it can neither be created nor destroyed. (Sylvanus P. Thomson.) In Physics a name denoting the cause of an important class of phenomena of attraction and repulsion, chemical decomposition, etc., or, collectively, these p

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. electricity

   A form of energy and form of power

   The electricity is vital for electric Vehicles.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on January 16, 2020  

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Electricity' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2808

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Electricity' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1996

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Electricity' in Nouns Frequency: #1160

How to pronounce Electricity?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Electricity in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Electricity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Electricity in a Sentence

1. Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel:

   By doing so we would push up electricity prices for industry and consumers further.

2. Rupert Wimmer:

   The insured risk volume in the weather market for reinsurers increases by around 5% to 10% each year, the main drivers are the rise of renewable energy in the electricity generation mix, and thus the necessity to take cover against volatile production and volatile power prices.

3. Monica Viego-Rodriguez:

   The mission is to restore power and that's what we're focusing on. Wednesday night, the Puerto Rico governor said the island will receive approximately $ 35 billion in federal aid. But he added that Puerto Rico is facing massive debt and won't be able to repay the money until 2022. Power crews say they have to prioritize – hospitals, police and fire stations, come first.Then communication facilities, water treatment plants, transportation providers and shelters.From there, utility crews repair infrastructure serving smaller groups and neighborhoods. People like Sol Vazquez, a law student who has been working the best she can with limited resources, also Skyped with Fox News this week. She said she has been seeing a mixed response from her friends and fellow students. I think everyone wants to get their electricity back, I don't think, at this point, they care who does it or how they do it, they just want to get the situation resolved.

4. George Osborne:

   The stakes could hardly be higher, if our electricity supply, or our air traffic control, or our hospitals were successfully attacked online, the impact could be measured not just in terms of economic damage but of lives lost.

5. Hussein Hazim:

   It is too hot and there is no electricity, so after sunrise, we come here to cool off ourselves due to high temperatures.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Electricity
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=Electricity
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Electricity
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Electricity
5. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity
6. ^ ChatGPT
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7. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Electricity
8. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Electricity
9. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Electricity
10. ^ The Standard Electrical Dictionary
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26535/pg26535-images.html#:~:text=Electricity