electrostatic induction

noun

Electricity.

1. the electrification of a conductor when placed near a charged body.

Word History and Origins

Origin of electrostatic induction¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

They confirmed that the process is powered by electrostatic induction.

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The researchers had theorized that electrostatic induction was the mechanism driving the interplay between the worm and its target.

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"It turns out that our model for the worm-charging mechanism agreed with a prediction for electrostatic induction that Maxwell made in 1870. There are many buried treasures in scientific history. Sometimes being a scientist is like being an archeologist."

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To such sudden impulses the primary as well as the secondary are poor conductors, and therefore great differences of potential may be produced by electrostatic induction between adjacent points on the secondary.

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If now we substitute a closed vacuum tube for the metallic secondary s, the differences of potential produced in the tube by electrostatic induction from the primary are fully sufficient to excite portions of it; but as the points of certain differences of potential on the primary are not fixed, but are generally constantly changing in position, a luminous band is produced in the tube, apparently not touching the glass, as it should, if the points of maximum and minimum differences of potential were fixed on the primary.

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