noun ·Moderate ·High school level
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"Again, the concretion of Ice will not endure a dry attrition without liquation ; for if it be rubbed long with a cloth, it melteth. But Cryſtal will calefie unto electricity ; that is, a power to attract ſtraws or light bodies, and convert the needle freely placed."
"He took up the job of studying electricity in college."
"Opening night for the new production had an electricity unlike other openings."
"This heater draws more than a thousand watts of electricity."
"Last year this portion of the grid consumed more than a thousand megawatt-hours of electricity."
"Electricity bosses set to make record profits."
"Can you imagine what our lives would be like without electricity?"
Originally, a property of amber and certain other nonconducting substances to attract lightweight material when rubbed, or the cause of this property; now understood to be a phenomenon caused by the distribution and movement of charged subatomic particles and their interaction with the electromagnetic field.
Common synonyms include: power, antelope, ardor, arrow, benzine, blue darter.
Can you imagine what our lives would be like without electricity?
Pronounced /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪs.ɪ.ti/.
From electric + -ity.