non-electricaln.adj.

1742 J. T. Desaguliers in Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) 41 203 A Non-electrical is such a body as cannot be made electrical by any Action upon the Body itself immediately; though it is capable of receiving that Virtue from an Electrical per se.

1742 J. T. Desaguliers in Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) 41 205 If the rubb'd Tube be applied to Leaf-Gold..it will act upon it much longer..than if the same Quantity of Leaf-Gold is laid upon a Table, which has more Non-electrical Surface than the Stand.

1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 550 The electrical and non-electrical drops succeeded almost alternately.

1875 Appletons' Jrnl. 3 July 28/3 The globe was put in a perfect non-electrical condition.

1894 Philos. Trans. 1893 (Royal Soc.) A. 184 441 We propose to use the phrase ‘non-electrical supply’ to denote heat due to all other sources than the current.

1914 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 90 273 The igniting power, measured by varying some non-electrical factor, such as the percentage of combustible gas in the mixture..should be proportional to the square of the current.

1953 Copper in Instrumentation (Copper Devel. Assoc.) ii. 72 Deoxidised copper is widely used for non-electrical purposes.

1998 Jrnl. Labor Econ. 16 730 When 2-digit industry classifications were used, nonelectrical and electrical machinery ranked at the top.