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Definition: Static Electricity |
Static ElectricityNoun1. Electricity produced by friction. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Static electricity is an electric charge built up on persons or objects through friction. It is most familiar as an occasional annoyance in seasons of low humidity, but can be destructive and harmful in some situations. When working in direct contact with integrated circuit electronics, or in the presence of flammable gas, care must be taken to avoid accumulating and discharging a static charge.Static electricity is electricity that does not flow in a current. Static electricity is generated by rubbing two nonmagnetic objects together. The friction between the two objects generates static electricity because the substance with an excess of electrons transfers them to the positively-charged substance. Usually, substances that don't conduct current electricity (insulators) are good at holding static electricity. These substances may include rubber, plastic, glass, or pith. The electrons that are transferred in static electricity are stored on the surface of an object.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Static electricity."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Recession | Electrical attraction, electricity, static electricity, static, static cling; magnetism, magnetic attraction; gravity, attraction of gravitation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Static Electricity |
| English words defined with "static electricity": electrophorus, electrostatic, electrostatic generator, electrostatic machine, electrostatics ♦ Van de Graaff generator ♦ Wimshurst machine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "static electricity": blasthole charger, BOAT LOADER I ♦ cationic cocktail ♦ dock hand ♦ LOADER HELPER ♦ PHOTOCOPYING-MACHINE OPERATOR, pier hand, plastic tamping rod ♦ static marks ♦ wharf hand, wharf operator, wharf tender. (references) |
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Business | The Chinese government has included chemical fiber carpets resistant to corrosion, fire, wear, mold contamination and static electricity, on their list of items that either are unavailable in China in large enough quantities or high enough quality. (references) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
static electricity | 222 |
static electricity experiment | 11 |
static electricity shock | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "static electricity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | statisk elektricitet. (various references) | |
Dutch | statische elektriciteit. (various references) | |
French | électricité statique. (various references) | |
German | statische Elektrizitaet. (various references) | |
Greek | στατικός ηλεκτρισμός. (various references) | |
Hungarian | sztatikus elektromosság. (various references) | |
Italian | elettricit statica. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 静電気 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せいで"き (positive electricity). (various references) | |
Manx | lectraght screebee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aticstay electricityay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | electricidade estática. (various references) | |
Romanian | electricitate staticã (static). (various references) | |
Russian | статическое электричество. (various references) | |
Spanish | electricidad estatica. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Static Electricity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: static electicity, static electricticy, static electricty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-c-e-e-i-i-i-l-r-s-t-t-t-t-y" | |
-5 letters: tractilities. | |
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