ELECTRICAL ENERGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electrical energy mean? 

• ELECTRICAL ENERGY (noun)
  The noun ELECTRICAL ENERGY has 1 sense:

1. energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor

  Familiarity information: ELECTRICAL ENERGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTRICAL ENERGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

electrical energy; electricity; power

Context example:

The power went oout around midnight

Hypernyms ("electrical energy" is a kind of...):

energy; free energy ((physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electrical energy"):

AC; alternating current; alternating electric current (an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally)

DC; direct current; direct electric current (an electric current that flows in one direction steadily)

signal (an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes)

 Context examples 

Issue associated with the inappropriate delivery of an electrical energy.

(Inappropriate Shock Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

A small medical device generating electrical impulses which is programmed to detect and treat cardiac arrhythmias by delivering electrical energy when indicated.

(Cardioverter-Defibrillator, NCI Thesaurus)

Implantable devices which convert biological energy (chemical energy of the metabolism of continuously regenerating body fluids or mechanical energy of periodic movements) to electrical energy.

(Bioelectric Energy Sources, NCI Thesaurus)