Some articles on electric:
... special, simplified case of this general effect by limiting the field to an electric field ... An electric field applies a force on a particle that is proportional to the strength of the field and to the charge on the particle ... The direction of the applied force is the same as the direction of the electric field ...
... A small electric current flows through the switch-type starter solenoid, closing the contacts and sending large battery current to the starter motor ...
... As part of the buyout, the electric distribution part of the company is now called Oncor Electric Delivery, the electric generation business is called Luminant, leaving TXU Energy as solely a retail provider of ...
... case, electromagnetism has two separate facets electric fields and magnetic fields ... be traced to special relativity where applying the Lorentz transformation to the electric field will transform it into a magnetic field ... The electric field is the dual of the magnetic field ...
... Honda started the Electric Vehicle Testing Program in the cities of Saitama, Kumagaya and Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, and Amakusa area, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, for its next-ge ... Another program, called Honda Electric Vehicle Demonstration Program, is taking place in California, in partnership with Stanford University, the city of ... The electric vehicle joins Google's GFleet, a car-sharing service for employees ...
More definitions of "electric":
- (adj): (of a situation) exceptionally tense.
Example: "An atmosphere electric with suspicion"
- (adj): Using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity.
Example: "Electric current"; "electric wiring"
Synonyms: electrical
- (noun): A car that is powered by electricity.
Synonyms: electric automobile, electric car
Famous quotes related to electric:
“The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media—movies, Telstar, flight—far surpasses any possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world’s a sage.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“They have thrown away her electric toothbrush, someone else slips
The key into the lock of her safety-deposit box
At the Crocker-Anglo Bank; her seat at the cricket matches
Is warmed by buttocks less delectable than hers.”
—Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)
“Flash’d from his bed the electric tidings came,
He is no better, he is much the same.”
—Anonymous.
Parody of the style of poet laureate Alfred Austin (1835-1913)
“The widest prairies have electric fences....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self- employment and artistic autonomy.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)