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Definition of Electrical

1. Adjective. Relating to or concerned with electricity. "Electrical and mechanical engineering industries"

2. Adjective. Using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity. "An electrical storm"

Definition of Electrical

1. Adjective. Related to electricity (or electronics) ¹

2. Noun. An electrical engineer. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Electrical

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Electrical

1. 1. Pertaining to electricity; consisting of, containing, derived from, or produced by, electricity; as, electric power or virtue; an electric jar; electric effects; an electric spark. 2. Capable of occasioning the phenomena of electricity; as, an electric or electrical machine or substance. 3. Electrifying; thrilling; magnetic. "Electric Pindar." Electric atmosphere, or Electric aura. See Aura. Electrical battery. See Battery. Electrical brush. See Brush. Electric cable. See Telegraph cable, under Telegraph. Electric candle. See Candle. Electric cat, any fish which has an electrical organ by means of which it can give an electrical shock. The best known kinds are the torpedo, the gymnotus, or electrical eel, and the electric cat. See Torpedo, and Gymnotus. Electric fluid, the supposed matter of electricity; lightning. Electrical image, the torpedo. Electric telegraph. See Telegraph. Origin: L. Electrum amber, a mixed metal, Gr.; akin to the beaming sun, cf. Skr. Arc to beam, shine: cf. F. Electrique. The name came from the production of electricity by the friction of amber. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Electrical

electric shaver electric shock electric shocks electric sleep electric socket electric soup electric stimulation therapy electric storm electric switch electric thermometer

electric toothbrush electric typewriter electric violin electric window electric wiring electrical electrical alternans electrical alternation of heart electrical axis electrical cable

electrical capacity electrical circuit electrical condenser electrical conductance electrical conduction electrical conductivity electrical contact electrical converter electrical coupling electrical current

Literary usage of Electrical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions by European Orthodontic Society, Lina Oswald, Northern Ohio Dental Society, Ossory Archaeological Society, Wentworth Historical Society, Society of Automobile Engineers (1910)
"A paper presented at a joint meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the A merican Society of Mechanical Engineers, Boston, Mass., ..."

2. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1897)
"REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON STANDARD Electrical RULES Mr. President and Members of the National Electric Light Association : At the nineteenth convention of this ..."

3. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1919)
"By Captain WHG Bullard, US Navy, completely revised and largely rewritten by officers and instructors of the Department of Electrical Engineering & Physics, ..."

4. Poole's Index to Periodical Literature: The First Supplement, from January 1 by William Frederick Poole, William Isaac Fletcher (1888)
"Electrical Inventions, Facts not generally known concerning. ... Electrical Resistance of Metals. Influence of Light on. ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"so to speak, facilitated electrical discharges ; the experiment of Faraday, by which it was shown that a person, and even the most delicate electrical ..."

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