electric ute (elektrikut)

t. [Contracted from electri- + execute.] To put to death ju tury B. C.), who observed that amber, after being rubbed electricution (ē-lek-tri-ku's hon), n. The act of by silk, had the property of attracting light bodies, like bits of paper, bran, etc. It was subsequently discovered electricuting. [Recent and colloq.] L. electrum, amber (repr. electricity), + ferre = E. bear1), + -ous.] Bearing or transmitting tinct i on, which, however, is properly explained as due to +-able.] 1. Capable of receiving electricity, a difference of electrical potential (see potential ), extends or of being charged with it; that may be electhrough the whole subject, by whatever means the electrified or become electric.-2. Capable of retricity is produced. It is found universally true that the ceiving and transmitting the electric fluid. two kinds of electricity are produced in equal amounts. Besides friction, there are other means of exciting elec. electrification (e-lektri-fi-kā'shon), n. [ tricity, as pre ure between two bodies or sudden fracture (by which means sugar becomes faintly luminous when broken in the dark). If a piece of sealing-wax is broken, the opposite ends will be found to be di imilar ly electrified. This is especially true of the fracture of cleavable minerals, like mica, calcite, etc. Some crystal trify + -ation.] The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity. This may be positive (+) or negative (-), according as the body is charged with positive or negative electricity-that is, according as its potential is higher or lower than the a umed zero. See potential. lized bodies become electrified by change of temperature: electrifier (e-lek'tri-fi-ér), n. One who or that for example, a crystal of tour mal in, on being slightly and negatively at the other; if cooled, the poles are reversed. (See pyro - electricity.) For the chief means of obtain under electric, and electrophorus. The principal subjects considered under the head of statical electricity are the supply of frictional electricity, see distribution of electricity over the surface of a conductor, as determined by its shape or the proximity of trified bodies (see density ); the effect of induction or the production of an electrified state in a neutral body by approaching it to one already electrified, but without contact; the degree of induction, as determined by the nature of the non-conductor or dielectric (see induction, conductor, dielectric ); the accumulation of electricity in a condenser, as a Leyden jar (see condenser, and Leyden jar, under jar ); the measurement of capacity, potential, quantity, etc. (as with an electrometer); and the phenomena of discharge, as the spark-discharge, which takes place between oppositely electrified bodies when they are brought near together, the brush-discharge, etc. The electricity generated by friction and analogous means is in a state of high potential (see potential ), but the quantity, and there. fore the amount of electrical energy, is generally small; it has the power of overcoming great resistances and producing violent mechanical effects, as seen in the discharge of a Holtz machine, and still more strikingly in the case electrify (e-lek'tri-fi), v. t.; pret. and pp. elec trified. trified, ppr. electrifying. electrifying. [L. [ He [Milton] electrifies the mind. Macaulay, Milton. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., i. If the sovereign were now to immure a subject in defiance of the writ of Habeas Corpus, or to put a conspirator to the torture, the whole nation would be instantly elec trified by the news. electrinel (ē-lek'trin), a. [ elect rin us , ἠλέκτρινος , made of amber or electrum, electrum ( electric ) +-ine2.] The (supposed) principle of electricity; a (supposed) kind of matter which manifests electrical phenomena. A hitherto undescribed ponderable chemical element, which he terms elect rine, and which he a umes to be an e ential constituent of oxygen. Ash burner , in Reichenbach's Dynamics, Pref., p. xiv. électrisation = Sp. elect riza cion = Pg. elect riza is analogous to the voltaic couple, only here the electrição; as electrize + -ation.] The act of electri cal current is obtained at the expense of the heat supplied. (See thermo-electricity.) The principal subjects considered under the head of current electricity are the effects of the current in causing chemical decomposition (see electrolysis, electrometallurgy ), in producing heat and light through the resistance of the medium, including the voltaic arc, and in the production of induced currents is not, as was formerly a umed, of the nature of a fluid either a single fluid, as was supposed by Franklin, or two fluids (positive and negative), as was supposed by Symmer. The word was first used by Gilbert, the creator of the science of electricity, and by him was applied to the phenomena of attraction and repulsion as exhibited when amber (electrum) and some other substances of a similar character were briskly rubbed. Its meaning has been gradually extended to include a large variety of phe nomena, among which may be named heating, luminous and magnetic effects, chemical decomposition, etc., toge ther with numerous apparent attractions and repulsions of matter widely differing from those originally noted, but all of which are attributed to a common cause. The subject is usually divided into the two parts of statical by friction, due to the difference of potential a umed by two di imilar substances when placed in contact.Diffusion of electricity. See diffusion. - Distribution of electricity. See distribution. - Electrostatic units of electricity. See electrostatic.- Excitation of electricity. See excitation. - Free and bound electricity. By a "free" charge of electricity is generally meant one which is borne by an insulated body independently of surrounding objects, while a "bound" charge is one held in position by the presence and attraction of a charge of the opposite character or sign upon a neighboring body. As a matter of fact all charges are "bound," the production of a given quantity of one kind of electricity being always accompanied by the production of the same quantity of the opposite kind. When this complementary fying. Also spelled electrisation. It is not electricity which cures, but Electrizations , a proce requiring far more technical skill than the uninitiated generally believe. Alien. and Neurol., VI. 153. electrize (ē-lektriz), v. t.; pret. and pp. elec trized , ppr. electrizing . [= D. elektriseren = G. elektrisiren = Dan. elektrisere = Sw. elektrisera = F. électriser = Sp. Pg. electrizar = It. elettriz zare , elect riz are , electrify, electrum , amber (repr. electricity).] To make electric; electrify. Also spelled electrise . electrify. electrizer (ē-lek'tri-zér), n. One who or that which electrifies; specifically, an apparatus for the application of electricity for medical purposes. Also spelled elect riser. electro (ē-lektro), n. [Abbreviation of electro type.] An electrotype. For these reasons the Act is objectionable in prohibiting the importation of stereos and electros . Amer . Publishers ' Circular . electro-. [NL., etc., electro-, formally repr. Gr. ἠλεκτρο-, combining form of ἠλεκτρον, amber, electrum (see electrum ), but practically a contraction of elect rico-, combining form of electri cus, E. electric: see electric.] The combining form, in many modern compounds, of electric, often representing also electricity. [In the fol lowing compounds containing electro-, where the second element exists independently in English, or is otherwise perfectly obvious, and where no parallel forms are cited, no etymology is given.]