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ELECTRICAL ENERGY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor
Example:
The power went oout around midnight
Synonyms:
electrical energy; electricity; power
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("electrical energy" is a kind of...):
energy; free energy ((physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electrical energy"):
AC; alternating current; alternating electric current (an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally)
DC; direct current; direct electric current (an electric current that flows in one direction steadily)
signal (an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes)
