electricity

Summary

electricity ranks in the top 0.43% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,781 views/month, #335 of 77,819).^[1]

Key Facts

• electricity is a type of energy^[2].
• electricity is a type of energy source^[3].
• electricity is a type of physical phenomenon^[4].
• electricity is part of electromagnetism^[5].
• electricity's Commons category is recorded as Electricity^[6].
• electricity comprises electrical polarity^[7].
• electricity's time of discovery or invention is recorded as 1821^[8].
• electricity's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Electricity^[9].
• electricity's facet of is recorded as electromagnetic interaction^[10].
• electricity's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[11].
• electricity's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[12].
• electricity's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary^[13].
• electricity's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[14].
• electricity's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia^[15].
• electricity's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[16].
• electricity's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[17].
• electricity's described by source is recorded as Small Soviet Encyclopedia^[18].
• electricity's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/electricity^[19].
• electricity's different from is recorded as eleki^[20].
• electricity's studied by is recorded as electrochemistry^[21].
• electricity's studied by is recorded as electromagnetism^[22].
• electricity's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have^[23].
• electricity's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[24].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include energy^[2], energy source^[3], and physical phenomenon^[4].

Use and Application

electricity comprises electrical polarity^[7]. electricity is part of electromagnetism^[5].

Influence

Things named for electricity include Elektro^[25], a humanoid robot^[26], founded in 1937^[27]; tourmalines^[28], a mineral supergroup^[29]; xerography^[30]; Elektrėnai^[31], a city^[32], in Lithuania^[33], founded in 1961^[34]; Elekiter^[35]; and Denyo^[36], an industrial manufacturing^[37], in Japan^[38], founded in 1948^[39], headquartered in Tokyo^[40].

Why It Matters

electricity ranks in the top 0.43% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,781 views/month, #335 of 77,819).^[1] electricity has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[41] electricity is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[42]

Entities named for electricity include Elektro^[25], a humanoid robot^[26], founded in 1937^[27]; tourmalines^[28], a mineral supergroup^[29]; xerography^[30]; Elektrėnai^[31], a city^[32], in Lithuania^[33], founded in 1961^[34]; Elekiter^[35]; and Denyo^[36], an industrial manufacturing^[37], in Japan^[38], founded in 1948^[39], headquartered in Tokyo^[40].