electrical field

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electrical field (uncountable)

  1. Physical field that surrounds electrically charged particles and exerts force on all other charged particles in the field.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see electrical,‎ field.
    • 1889 March 15, The Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review, volume 24, number 590, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 291, column 2:
      True there is, in many cases, something to boast about, but the way in which many of our otherwise estimable contemporaries in the electrical field talk about themselves, their energy, progress, and enterprise, makes us smile, sadly smile, to see such excellent, well-conducted journals depart so far from the paths of modesty.
    • 1913 September, “Personals.”, in Electrical Engineering, volume 45, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 418, column 2:
      Philip Dodd is among the best known men in the electrical field.

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