Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An accumulation of electric charge on an insulated body.
- n. Electric discharge resulting from the accumulation of electric charge on an insulated body.
Wiktionary
- n. An electric charge that has built up on an insulated body, often due to friction.
- n. The electric discharge from such a body.
- n. physics Electrostatics.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. See the Note under Electricity, 1.
WordNet 3.0
- n. electricity produced by friction
Examples
“The static electricity in a midsummer dust storm had charred his neighbor Ebberson’s wheat fields like some science experiment gone awry.”
“A shirt or pair of slacks made of Dynel would build up static electricity like polyester, causing everything to stick to it.”
“Psy-4 could smell the ozone, feel that crackling static electricity twisting through the atmosphere, brushing past him.”
“When he passed behind me, I had felt like the victim of a child’s balloon game, with static electricity causing the hairs on the arm to rise and follow the balloon’s path back and forth above the skin — I had been almost painfully aware of quivering receptors following him about the room.”
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