Definition of Electrec
{ E*lec"tric (&esl;*l&ebreve;k"tr&ibreve;k),
E*lec"tric*al (-tr&ibreve;*kal), }
a. [L. electrum amber, a mixed metal, Gr.
'h`lektron; akin to 'hle`ktwr the beaming sun,
cf. Skr. arc to beam, shine: cf. F. électrique.
The name came from the production of electricity by the friction of
amber.] 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." Mrs. Browning.
Electric atmosphere, or Electric
aura. See under Aura. -- Electrical
battery. See Battery. -- Electrical
brush. See under Brush. -- Electric
cable. See Telegraph cable, under
Telegraph. -- Electric candle. See
under Candle. -- Electric cat
(Zoöl.), one of three or more large species of
African catfish of the genus Malapterurus (esp. M.
electricus of the Nile). They have a large electrical organ and
are able to give powerful shocks; -- called also
sheathfish. -- Electric clock. See
under Clock, and see Electro-chronograph. --
Electric current, a current or stream of
electricity traversing a closed circuit formed of conducting
substances, or passing by means of conductors from one body to
another which is in a different electrical state. --
Electric, or Electrical, eel,
(Zoöl.), a South American eel-like fresh-water fish
of the genus Gymnotus (G. electricus), from two to five
feet in length, capable of giving a violent electric shock. See
Gymnotus. -- Electrical fish
(Zoöl.), 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
(Elec.), a collection of electrical points regarded as
forming, by an analogy with optical phenomena, an image of certain
other electrical points, and used in the solution of electrical
problems. Sir W. Thomson. -- Electrical
light, the light produced by a current of electricity
which in passing through a resisting medium heats it to incandescence
or burns it. See under Carbon. -- Electric, or
Electrical, machine, an apparatus for
generating, collecting, or exciting, electricity, as by
friction. -- Electric motor. See
Electro-motor, 2. -- Electric osmose.
(Physics) See under Osmose. --
Electric pen, a hand pen for making perforated
stencils for multiplying writings. It has a puncturing needle driven
at great speed by a very small magneto-electric engine on the
penhandle. -- Electric railway, a railway
in which the machinery for moving the cars is driven by an electric
current. -- Electric ray (Zoöl.),
the torpedo. -- Electric telegraph.
See Telegraph.
E*lec"tric (?), n. (Physics)
A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc.,
employed to excite or accumulate electricity.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical
- of, or relating to an electronic version of a musical instrument that has an acoustic equivalent
- emotionally thrilling; electrifying
- an electric car
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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