Crossword clues for electrification
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Electrification \E*lec`tri*fi*ca"tion\, n. (Physics) The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1748, "state of being charged with electricity," noun of action from electrify.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity. 2 the adaption (of a home, farm, village, city, inudstry, railroad) for electric power
WordNet
n. the activity of thrilling or markedly exciting some person or group
the act of providing electricity; "the electrification of rural Tennessee"
Wikipedia
Electrification is the process of powering by electricity and is usually associated with changing over from another power source. The broad meaning of the term, such as in the history of technology and economic history, usually applies to a region or national economy. Broadly speaking, electrification was the build out of the electrical generating and distribution systems which occurred in Britain, the United States, and other countries from the mid-1880s until around 1950 and is in progress in rural areas in some developing countries. This included the change over from line shaft and belt drive using steam engines and water power to electric motors.
The electrification of particular sectors of the economy is called by terms such as factory electrification, household electrification, rural electrification or railway electrification. It may also apply to changing industrial processes such as smelting, melting, separating or refining from coal or coke heating, or chemical processes to some type of electric process such as electric arc furnace, electric induction or resistance heating, or electrolysis or electrolytic separating.
Electrification was called "the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th Century" by the National Academy of Engineering.
Electrification is the construction of electric power distribution systems.
Electrification may also refer to:
Usage examples of "electrification".
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The Marquess of Shropshire was dictating to his secretary a letter to his County Council, urging on them an item of his lifelong programme for the electrification of everything.
He had also made provision for electrification, at three different levels of voltage.
He had checked the external fence during his reconnaissance yesterday for signs of electrification but had found no evidence of any wiring, not even alarm wires.
Scratching his ass in the curling sunlight, trying to bring himself to some kind of accommodation, Robles peered at his strange and attractive partner, then turned to see the mesh fences in the distance, the fences walling off the compound, holding it through paradoxical electrification and wire from the gigantic animals that would otherwise in their ignorance blunder through.
MacDonald had recommended both motion sensing and electrification, but they'd had too much trouble with birds on the former and the latter was still on the drawing boards.
Because of this, and for use in areas where traffic density did not justify the capital cost of electrification, in 1920-22 a new series of locomotives using turbocompound-electric power were brought into service.