electricity

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electricities

1.
(uncountable, usually)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.
For, reſtoring the equilibrium in the bottle does not at all affect the Electricity in the man thro’ whom the fire paſſes ; that Electricity is neither increaſed nor diminiſhed.
2.
(uncountable, usually)(physics) The study of electrical phenomena; the branch of science dealing with such phenomena.
He took up the job of studying electricity in college.
3.
(uncountable, usually)A feeling of excitement; a thrill.
Opening night for the new production had an electricity unlike other openings.
4.
(uncountable, usually)Electrical power, as supplied by power stations or generators.
This heater draws more than a thousand watts of electricity.
5.
(uncountable, usually)Electrical energy, as supplied by power stations or generators.
Last year this portion of the grid consumed more than a thousand megawatt-hours of electricity.
6.
(attributive, often, uncountable, usually)(business, often attributive) The supply of electricity, as a utility.
Electricity bosses set to make record profits.

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