{
  "id": "electricity.electrical",
  "term": "electricity",
  "sense": "electrical",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "natural phenomena",
  "domain": "physics",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A flow of energy that happens when charged parts move through matter in a pattern.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "energy.capacity",
      "motion.movement",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "matter.substance",
      "charged.electrical",
      "flow.movement",
      "happen.event-occurrence",
      "part.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "Energy moves through matter as charged parts flow in a repeated pattern from one place to another.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "directed energy transfer",
      "controllable current",
      "potential difference propagation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2021 Texas power grid failure cut electricity to 4.5 million homes during Winter Storm Uri.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Electric eels generate electricity in their organs to stun prey, producing up to 600 volts.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Three Gorges Dam in China produces electricity by channeling water through turbines.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "socket.electrical",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "electricity enables the function of a socket"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "electrical.electrical",
    "electronic.electrical",
    "electronics.electrical",
    "metal.element",
    "phone.electrical",
    "printer.tool",
    "radio.electrical",
    "socket.electrical"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "electricity"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts to components list; definition was accurate and did not require rewriting."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-electricity.electrical"
}