electricity

• n. 電気；電流；強い緊張

electro（電気）が語源。

electricity

electricity: [17] The earliest manifestation of electricity was that produced by rubbing amber, and hence the name, based on ēlectrum, Latin for ‘amber’ (which in turn derives from Greek ēlektron). The first evidence of this in a Latin text is in William Gilbert’s De magnete 1600, but by the middle of the century we find the word being used in English treatises, notably Sir Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxia epidemica 1646. (At this early stage, of course, it referred only to the ability of rubbed amber, etc to attract light bodies, the only property of electricity then known about; it was not until later that the full range of other electrical phenomena came to be included under the term.)

electricity (n.)

1640s (Browne, from Gilbert's Modern Latin), from electric (q.v.) + -ity. Originally in reference to friction.

Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas jet and give more light than a horse. [Ambrose Bierce, "The Cynic's Word Book," 1906]

1. It will produce electricity more cheaply than a nuclear plant.

その発電コストは原子力発電所よりも低い。

2.It should also look into the possibilities of wind-generated electricity .

風力発電の可能性についても研究する。

3.The cost of electricity from coal-fired stations is expected to fall.

石炭を燃料とする火力発電所のコスト削減が期待されている。

4.Some barbecues can be plugged into a household electricity supply.

家庭用電源に直接差し込むバーベキューオーブンがあります。

5.The building had been trashed and its electricity supply cut.

そのビルは破壊され、電気が切断された。