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Webster 1913 Edition


Electric

E-lec′tric

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Noun.
(Physics)
A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.

Webster 1828 Edition


Electric

ELEC'TRIC

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Noun.
Any body or substance capable of exhibiting electricity by means of friction or otherwise,and of resisting the passage of it from one body to another. Hence an electric is called a non-conductor, an electric per se. Such are amber, glass, rosin, wax, gum-lac, sulphur, &c.

Definition 2024


elèctric

elèctric

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Adjective

elèctric m (feminine elèctrica, masculine plural elèctrics, feminine plural elèctriques)

  1. electric

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