electric
IPA: ɪɫˈɛktrɪk
noun
- (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.
adjective
- 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.
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Examples of "electric" in Sentences
- The cameraman has the electric power turned on.
- This is the dazzling bright light which we call electric light.
- The first was a source of electric power to smelt the aluminium.
- Biologic effects of power frequency electric and magnetic fields.
- An electric arc lighting device for igniting inflammable products.
- As Matouse said the Rapalla electric is a good knife for bulk work.
- It generates the electric power of the maximum of 220,000 kilowatts.
- I had two thoughts when I first heard the phrase "electric sundown."
- I would seperate out the electricity costs into a power beaming section.
- An electric device selects the needles of a rectilinear knitting machine.
- Electrical power can be generated by burning anything which will combust.
- Hydroelectric power provided the majority of electricity during the period.
- A battery is used for the supply of the required electric energy to the heater.
- 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.