electricity
noun
elec·tric·i·ty
i-ˌlek-ˈtri-sə-tē 
ē-,
-ˈtri-stē
plural electricities
1
2
: a science that deals with the phenomena and laws of electricity
3
: keen contagious excitement
could feel the electricity in the room
Examples of electricity in a Sentence
The electricity went off during the storm.
an old building with no plumbing or electricity
You could feel the electricity in the room.
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The tech giant helmed by Mark Zuckerberg was in the process of hammering out a deal with the operator of a nuclear power plant that would have provided electricity for a new data center.
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Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
The river had been diverted to run the giant turbines to provide electricity to Siskiyou County and parts of southern Oregon for the first time in the early 20th century.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
Second, the brute-force approach to training and inferencing inherent in the big LLMs requires a lot of resources in terms of electricity, datacenter compute (and expensive GPUs), memory—the list goes on.
—Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
An urban orchard boasting 80 varieties of fruit trees, a 15,000-square-foot permeable parking lot with a recycled rainwater system, and a solar flower to help provide electricity for the community gardens and farmers market were all completed in 2015.
—Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2024
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Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
The river had been diverted to run the giant turbines to provide electricity to Siskiyou County and parts of southern Oregon for the first time in the early 20th century.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
Second, the brute-force approach to training and inferencing inherent in the big LLMs requires a lot of resources in terms of electricity, datacenter compute (and expensive GPUs), memory—the list goes on.
—Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
An urban orchard boasting 80 varieties of fruit trees, a 15,000-square-foot permeable parking lot with a recycled rainwater system, and a solar flower to help provide electricity for the community gardens and farmers market were all completed in 2015.
—Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Electricity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electricity. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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electricity
noun
elec·tric·i·ty
i-ˌlek-ˈtris-ət-ē
-ˈtris-tē
1
: a form of energy that is found in nature but that can be artificially produced by rubbing together two unlike things (as glass and silk), by the action of chemicals, or by means of a generator
2
: electric current
3
: great excitement
felt the electricity in the theater
Medical Definition
electricity
noun
elec·tric·i·ty
i-ˌlek-ˈtris-ət-ē, -ˈtris-tē
plural electricities
1
a
: a fundamental entity of nature consisting of negative and positive kinds, observable in the attractions and repulsions of bodies electrified by friction and in natural phenomena (as lightning or the aurora borealis), and usually utilized in the form of electric currents
b
: electric current or power
2
: a science that deals with the phenomena and laws of electricity
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