English

Alternative forms

• electrick (chiefly archaic)

Adjective

electric ‎(not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:

     But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.

   • 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.

2. Of or relating to an electronic version of a musical instrument that has an acoustic equivalent.
3. Being emotionally thrilling; electrifying.
   • Elizabeth Barrett Browning

     Electric Pindar.

4. Drawing electricity from an external source; not battery-operated; corded.

   Is that a rechargeable vacuum? No, it's electric.‎

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Noun

electric ‎(usually uncountable, plural electrics)

1. (informal, uncountable) Electricity.
2. (rare, countable) An electric car.
3. (archaic) A substance or object which can be electrified; an insulator or non-conductor, like amber or glass.

Translations

References

• “electric” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
• electric in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Dictionary.com definitions of electric
• Niels H. de V. Heathcote (December 1967). "The early meaning of electricity: Some Pseudodoxia Epidemica - I". Annals of Science 23 (4): pp. 261-275.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowing from French électrique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈlek.trik/

Adjective

electric m, n ‎(feminine singular electrică, masculine plural electrici, feminine and neuter plural electrice)

1. electric

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