electricity
- Noun. A form of energy usually carried by wires or produced by batteries used to power machines and computing, communications, lighting, and heating devices.
- Noun. A form of secondary energy, caused by the behavior of electrons and protons, properly called "electrical energy".
- Noun. A fundamental attractive property of matter, appearing in negative and positive kinds.
- Noun. The flow of charge carriers within a conductor, properly called "electric current".
- Noun. The charge carriers within a conductor, properly called "electric charge".
- Noun. A class of physical phenomena, related to flows and interactions of electric charge.
- Noun. A field of physical science and technology, concerned with the phenomena of electric charge.
- Noun. Excitement.
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