Meaning of "frictional electricity" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF FRICTIONAL ELECTRICITY

frictional electricity  [ˈfrɪkʃ ənəl ɪˌlɛkˈtrɪsɪtɪ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FRICTIONAL ELECTRICITY

Frictional electricity is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FRICTIONAL ELECTRICITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Triboelectric effect

The triboelectric effect is a type of contact electrification in which certain materials become electrically charged after they come into contact with another different material through friction. Rubbing glass with fur, or a comb through the hair, can build up triboelectricity. Most everyday static electricity is triboelectric. The polarity and strength of the charges produced differ according to the materials, surface roughness, temperature, strain, and other properties. The triboelectric effect is not very predictable, and only broad generalizations can be made. Amber, for example, can acquire an electric charge by contact and separation with a material like wool. This property, first recorded by Thales of Miletus, suggested the word "electricity", from the Greek word for amber, ēlektron. The prefix tribo- refers to ‘friction’, as in tribology. Other examples of materials that can acquire a significant charge when rubbed together include glass rubbed with silk, and hard rubber rubbed with fur.

TRANSLATION OF FRICTIONAL ELECTRICITY

Find out the translation of frictional electricity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of frictional electricity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «frictional electricity» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 摩擦电
• Translator English - Spanish: electricidad por fricción
• English: frictional electricity
• Translator English - Hindi: घर्षण बिजली
• Translator English - Arabic: الكهرباء الاحتكاك
• Translator English - Russian: электричество трения
• Translator English - Portuguese: eletricidade por atrito
• Translator English - Bengali: ঘর্ষণ বিদ্যুৎ
• Translator English - French: l´électricité de frottement
• Translator English - Malay: Elektrik geseran
• Translator English - German: Reibungselektrizität
• Translator English - Japanese: 摩擦電気
• Translator English - Korean: 마찰 전기
• Translator English - Javanese: Friksi listrik
• Translator English - Vietnamese: điện ma sát
• Translator English - Tamil: உராய்வு மின்சாரம்
• Translator English - Marathi: संघर्षजन्य वीज
• Translator English - Turkish: Sürtünme elektriği
• Translator English - Italian: elettricità attrito
• Translator English - Polish: tarcia energii elektrycznej
• Translator English - Ukrainian: електрику тертя
• Translator English - Romanian: de energie electrică de frecare
• Translator English - Greek: ηλεκτρική ενέργεια τριβής
• Translator English - Afrikaans: wrywingskrag elektrisiteit
• Translator English - Swedish: friktions elektricitet
• Translator English - Norwegian: friksjons elektrisitet

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FRICTIONAL ELECTRICITY»

Discover the use of frictional electricity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to frictional electricity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Frictional Electricity

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

Thomas P. Treglohan, 2010

Frictional Electricity. PT. II of Magnetism and Electricity...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

H C Tarn, 2012

Comprehensive Physics XII

FRICTIONAL ELECTRICITY AND TWO KINDS OF CHARGES (a) Introduction When a glass rod is rubbed with silk or an ebonite rod is rubbed with flannel, these acquire a power to attract light bodies such as small pieces of paper. The agency ...

Narinder Kumar, 2003

Digest of Literature on Dielectrics

*257. J. H. Jones, "The Influence of the Surrounding Medium on Static Electricity, " Phil. Mag. 50, 1160-1177 (1925). *258. H. F. Vieweg, "Frictional Electricity, " J. Phys. Chem. 30, 865-889 (1926) . *259. P. E. Shaw and C. S. Jex, ...

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Ball and Moore's Essential Physics for Radiographers

From the above examples, it is clear that static or frictional electricity has a number of practical consequences in diagnostic imaging. For this reason, and as a first introduction to the broader concepts of electricity, we shall now consider ...

John Ball, Adrian D. Moore, Steve Turner, 2012

Basic Electricity

You learned earlier that static (or frictional) electricity can be produced by rubbing certain dissimilar materials together. The source of energy in this case is from the muscles in your arm that, in turn, causes the separation of the charges. One of ...

Van Valkenburgh, 1992

Cavendish

... with the related assignment of determining the proper floor covering to reduce frictional electricity at powder magazines and works.41 The remarkable fact about the response to Cavendish's electrical theory is that it was almost non- existent.

Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach, 1996

Modern Views of Electricity

Frictional Electricity. 62. But the contact force at a junction is by no means confined to metals. It occurs between in— sulators also, and it is to it that the striking effects produced by all frictional electric machines are due. The essential thing in ...

Oliver Lodge, 2012

The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics

1. FRICTIONAL ELECTRICITY. (Common or Franklinie Electricity.) APPARATUS. ——Tlle apparatus requisite for the medical application of frictional electricity consists of the following instruments :— 1. A cylindrical or a plate machine (fig. 1, a).

Jonathan Pereira, 2014

Popular Science

The science has two great divisions ; the one called " Frictional Electricity," the other " Voltaic Electricity." For the present, our studies will be confined to the first, or older portion of the science, which is called " Frictional Electricity," because in it ...

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