ELECTRICITY
\ɪlɛktɹˈɪsɪtˌi], \ɪlɛktɹˈɪsɪtˌi], \ɪ_l_ɛ_k_t_ɹ_ˈɪ_s_ɪ_t_ˌi]\
Definitions of ELECTRICITY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
Sort: Oldest first
-
a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons
By Princeton University
-
a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
-
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.
-
The science which unfolds the phenomena and laws of electricity; electrical science.
-
Fig.: Electrifying energy or characteristic.
By Oddity Software
-
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.
-
The science which unfolds the phenomena and laws of electricity; electrical science.
-
Fig.: Electrifying energy or characteristic.
By Noah Webster.
-
An invisible force producing light, heat, and other physical effects; the science of the laws of this force.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
-
The property of attracting and repelling light bodies: the science which investigates the phenomena and laws of this property.
By Daniel Lyons
-
A natural force, manifested when certain bodies are subjected to friction; series of phenomena connected with this force.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
-
The substance in which it was first noticed. Electricity is used medicinally as an excitant. It has been occasionally employed with success in paralysis, rheumatism, accidental deafness, amaurosis, amenorrhoea, & e., but it is uncertain, and not much used; and the cases are not always clear in which it could be of service. It may be communicated by means of the electric bath-Bain electrique, as it has been called; which consists in placing the patient upon an insulated stool, and connecting him with the prime conductor, of which he thus becomes a part. The fluid may be communicated by points, sparks, or by shocks, according to the required intensity.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
-
A form of energy obtained usually by friction of certain substances; or by chemical action, as in the case of the galvanic cell. On the theory that matter is composed, ultimately, of negatively charged electric particles, the electrons, a charge of electricity is due to the accumulation of an excess of negatively charged electrons or to the loss of electrons leaving a positive charge.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
-
n. [Greek] A subtle agent or power in nature, evolved in any disturbance of molecular equilibrium, whether from a chemical, physical, or mechanical cause, and exhibiting itself in a variety of ways; —the science which unfolds the phenomena and laws of the electric fluid.
Word of the day
syncranterian
- With teeth in a continuous row. [Greek] With teeth in a continuous row(zool.).