electrical
Americanadjective
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Origin of electrical
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Wednesday, causing widespread electrical blackouts and cutoffs of gas supplies.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026
It allows a driver within one second of a car in front to recover and deploy an extra 0.5MJ of electrical energy per lap.
From BBC • Jun. 23, 2026
Even when fuel was readily available, a decrepit electrical grid caused regular power outages and daily life was consumed by the search for necessities.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026
"What we find is that this quantization of the electrical conductance in quantum Hall has an analog with the cosmological constant," Hui said.
From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2026
Later in the nineteenth century, scientists will discover that a weak electrical current applied to the exposed brain of a laboratory animal will make certain muscles twitch involuntarily and certain senses sharpen or go dead.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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