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static electricity

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An accumulation of electric charge on an insulated body.
  • noun Electric discharge resulting from the accumulation of electric charge on an insulated body.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An electric charge that has built up on an insulated body, often due to friction.
  • noun The electric discharge from such a body.
  • noun physics Electrostatics.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun electricity produced by friction

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