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electrification|ɪˌlɛktrɪfɪˈkeɪʃən|
[f. electrify v. after L. nouns of action in -ficātio.]
1. a. The action or process of electrifying; subjection to the electric current.
1748Phil. Trans. XLV. 194 An Electrification of five or six Hours. 1750Ibid. XLVI. 385 The Prelate was not cured; and since the Electrification..had been as he was before. 1881A. Macfarlane in Nature XXIV. 465 After a few electrifications..particles collect to form a chain.
b. The action or process of converting (a railway system, factory, etc.) to the use of electricity.
Earlier attempts to provide a term for this were electrolisation and electrilisation, with a verb electralise [sic] = electrify v. 1 b.[1900Westm. Gaz. 15 Feb. 4/1 The electrolisation of the inner circle, with its twenty-six stations. Ibid. 15 Aug. 3/1 The complete electrolisation of London tramways. 1901J. Burns in Standard 4 Mar., If Londoners had only done in 1895 what they did on Saturday, three-fourths of the tramways would have been electralised. 1901Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 4/3 Americanised companies which go in for the ‘standard’ system of electrilisation.] 1901Westm. Gaz. 2 Jan. 8/3 The character of the coal consumed..has altered the position for the worse... The one possible remedy is electrification. Ibid. 6 June, District Railway Electrification. 1904Daily Chron. 26 Aug. 7/4 Electrification Perils. Risk Entailed by the Transformation of the ‘Underground’. 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §561 Electrification ganger. 1963M. Goldstein Dict. Mod. Acronyms 123 REA, Rural Electrification Administration. 1967[see electrifier].
2. The state or condition of a body charged with electricity.
1787Phil. Trans. LXXVII. 29 The electrification of fogs and rain. 1878Gurney Crystallogr. 114 The electrifications of the glass and the resin are of opposite kinds. 1881Maxwell Electr. & Magn. I. 32 It is the..practice..to call the vitreous electrification positive, and the resinous electrification negative.
3. fig. The condition or state of being electrified or excited. (Cf. electrify v. 2.)
1878F. A. Kemble Rec. Girlhood I. iv. 113 The tragedy was ended, and I had electrified the audience, my companions, and, still more, myself; and so, to avert any ill effects from this general electrification, Mrs. Rowden thought it wise and well to say to me [etc.]. 1892Leisure Hour Aug. 657/1 Her electrification by Mr. Belport's proposal. |