(physics) The potential energy of an electric charge in an electric field, or of an electric current in a magnetic field.
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Electrical energy.
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Electric-energy Sentence Examples
Hitherto the large bill for electric energy has debarred the general use of electrical heating, in spite of its numerous advantages.
when actually lifting at full speed the mechanical work of lifting represents about 72%° of the electric energy put into the lifting motor.
with a substance offering a high resistance to the current passing through it, and (2) those in which the substance to be heated itself affords the resistance to the passage of the current whereby electric energy is converted into heat.
The motivepower generated by the Camuzzoni canal is utilized by a large nail factory, flour mills, paper mills, cotton mills and works for the distribution of electric energy.
The convenience also with which the energy of waterfalls can be converted into electric energy has led to the introduction of chemical industries into countries and districts where, owing to the absence of coal, they were previously unknown.