electric

IPA: ɪɫˈɛktrɪk

(informal, usually with definite article) Electricity; the electricity supply.
(informal) An electric powered version of something that was originally or is more commonly not electric.
(rare, countable) An electric car.
An electric toothbrush.
An electric typewriter.
(archaic) A substance or object which can be electrified; an insulator or non-conductor, like amber or glass.
(fencing) Fencing with the use of a body wire, box, and related equipment to detect when a weapon has touched an opponent.

Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.
Of or relating to an electronic version of a musical instrument that has an acoustic equivalent.
Being emotionally thrilling; electrifying.

Examples of "electric" in Sentences

This is the dazzling bright light which we call electric light.
As Matouse said the Rapalla electric is a good knife for bulk work.
I had two thoughts when I first heard the phrase "electric sundown."
That electromotive force acting on a dielectric produces what we call electric displacement.
Some of us are not driving, some are trading in SUVs for hybrids, and some are looking in a completely different direction, towards what they call electric cars.
The term electric radiation was first employed by Hertz to designate waves emitted by a Leyden jar or oscillator system of an induction coil, but since that time these radiations have been known as Hertzian waves.
_ So, when the conductor is not so good; when a large wire is reduced suddenly to a small one; when a good conductor, such as copper, has a section of resisting conduction, such as carbon; heat and light are at once evolved at that point, and there is produced what we know as the electric light.
However, with incomparably higher frequencies, which we may yet find means to produce efficiently, and provided that electric impulses of such high frequencies could be transmitted through a conductor, the electrical characteristics of the brush discharge would completely vanish -- no spark would pass, no shock would be felt -- yet we would still have to deal with an _electric_ phenomenon, but in the broad, modern interpretation of the word.