(n.) A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direction in which involves polarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by attraction for many substances, by a law involving attraction between surfaces of unlike polarity, and repulsion between those of like; by exhibiting accumulated polar tension when the circuit is broken; and by producing heat, light, concussion, and often chemical changes when the circuit passes between the poles or through any imperfectly conducting substance or space. It is generally brought into action by any disturbance of molecular equilibrium, whether from a chemical, physical, or mechanical, cause.
(n.) The science which unfolds the phenomena and laws of electricity; electrical science.
(n.) Fig.: Electrifying energy or characteristic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
(2) Cellular radial expansion was apparently unaffected by exposure to electric fields.
(3) The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effects of cromakalim (BRL 34915), a potent drug from a new class of drugs characterized as "K+ channel openers", on the electrical activity of human skeletal muscle.
(4) Noradrenaline (NA) was released from sympathetic nerve endings in the tissue by electrical stimulation of the mesenteric nerves or by the indirect sympathomimetic agent tyramine.
(5) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
(6) All of the serotonergic antagonists studied had additional effects on the response of the coronary artery to electrical stimulation or to norepinephrine.
(7) Hyperosmolar buffer slightly increased the sensitivity and maximal response to methacholine as well as the cholinergic twitch to electric field stimulation.
(8) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
(9) Electrical stimulation of afferent pathways at intensities just below threshold for eliciting action potentials resulted in a dramatic decrease in JSCP threshold.
(10) Average temperature changes observed were less than 1 degree C. The present study demonstrates that the electrically evoked response in mammalian brain can be altered by ultrasound in a non-thermal, non-cavitational mode, and that such effects are potentially reversible.
(11) Quantitative esophageal sensibility, therefore is concluded to be particularly suited to evaluation by electric stimulation.
(12) The new trabecular bone closely resembled that typically seen at electrically active implants.
(13) A second group was chronically implanted without electrical stimulation in one leg and implanted with cyclical electrical stimulation applied through the electrode in the other leg.
(14) The intermandibularis is probably present only in electric rays.
(15) Masking experiments are demonstrated for electrical frequency-modulated tone bursts from 1,000 to 10,000 cps and from 10,000 to 1,000 cps with superimposed clicks.
(16) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(17) It is suggested that intra-endothelial conduction of electrical signals from capillaries to the resistance vessels may be involved in the local regulation of blood flow in the intact heart.
(18) In the anesthetized cat, the posterior canal nerve (PCN) was stimulated by electric pulses and synaptic responses were recorded intracellularly in the three antagonistic pairs of extraocular motoneurons.
(19) Among the epileptic patients investigated by the stereotactic E. E. G. (Talairach) whose electrodes were introduced at or around the auditory cortex (Area 41, 42), the topography of the auditory responses by the electrical bipolar stimulation and that of the auditory evoked potential by the bilateral click sound stimulation were studied in relation to the ac--pc line (Talairach).
(20) It is suggested that contractile responses to electrical stimulation in isolated sheep urethral smooth muscle are mediated by the sympathetic nervous system, mainly through release of noradrenaline stimulating postjunctional alpha 1-adrenoceptors.
Electrify
Definition:
(v. t.) To communicate electricity to; to charge with electricity; as, to electrify a jar.
(v. t.) To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to; as, to electrify a limb, or the body.
(v. t.) To excite suddenly and violently, esp. by something highly delightful or inspiriting; to thrill; as, this patriotic sentiment electrified the audience.
(v. i.) To become electric.
Example Sentences:
(1) Routes from London to Oxford and between Manchester, Preston, Blackpool and Liverpool will be electrified by 2016.
(2) "This has electrified the country," said the Republican senate leader Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky.
(3) An increasing barrier technique was used to measure how much of an average stimulus (cresssing an electrified grid) a female was willing to endure to gain contact with sexually active male.
(4) It was left to Americans Michael Moore (at the Roundhouse in London in 2002) and Doug Stanhope to remind us that speaking truth to power can equal electrifying standup.
(5) The Northern Hub will provide electrified track and new stretches of railway over the next five years, radiating out from Greater Manchester , to allow faster connections between stations from Chester and Liverpool to Bradford and Leeds, cutting out some of the gridlock around Manchester Piccadilly.
(6) His presence might not electrify the O2 Arena, and he's not that hot at soundbites, like Blair and Thatcher, but look where those two got us.
(7) A moment later he was teed up by Ruud van Nistelrooy and his electrifying shot was palmed over the bar by Arsenal's German keeper.
(8) In daily 10-minute sessions, water deprived rats were trained to drink from a tube that was occasionally electrified (0.25 mA), electrification being signalled by a tone.
(9) "Please ignore the abysmal example set by President Obama who, in the name of Thanksgiving, supports torture as 45 million birds are horrifically abused; dragged through electrified stun baths, and then have their throats slit.
(10) Berlusconi's remarks, combined with allegations at the weekend of a colossal slush fund at a bank traditionally close to the left, looked set to electrify a hitherto lacklustre campaign.
(11) Ghani's transformation has electrified an election campaign that many had expected to be a two-way race between a Karzai-backed candidate and the president's main rival from 2009, Abdullah Abdullah.
(12) You won’t know till you’ve slogged up several floors, got lost twice, been flagged down by precisely the person you were trying to avoid, and finally arrived at an apparently electrifying session that nonetheless finished ten minutes early.
(13) These are the equations of light, the mathematical relationships that showed us how to electrify our world and transmit energy and information through the air.
(14) In a single session, naive female 250-g Wistar rats were trained to remain for 3 min on a platform located above an electrifiable grid.
(15) These works electrified France's art world, even if Calle had not originally conceived them as art.
(16) Tyrie said amendments tabled by the government on Monday to "electrify" the ringfence that banks are required to set up to keep high street operations separate from investment banking were "virtually useless".
(17) In 10 electrifying days that haul has been more than doubled.
(18) Thursday was in many ways the most electrifying of all Britain's golden days at Greenwich – a final tally of three golds, silver and bronze exceeds expectations.
(19) A similar display of democracy in Richmond Park would electrify the campaign.
(20) He tossed Shakespeare into a modern-day, thinly veiled Miami in the electrifying Romeo + Juliet and sent Nicole Kidman wafting, purring and simpering through bohemian Paris in Moulin Rouge!