electricity

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

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