electric strength

noun

1. the maximum voltage sustainable by an insulating material, after which it loses its insulating properties

Example Sentences

And electric strength had come to him now the horizons were kicked out.

From Literature

Things as dissimilar as pressure, temperature, and electromotive force, now show points of agreement in relation to ideas derived by definite methods from that concept: viz., fall of pressure, fall of temperature, fall of potential, as also with the further notions of liquid, thermal, and electric strength of current.

From Project Gutenberg

The electric strength for a homogeneous plate of crystalline sulphur is not less than 33,000 volts per centimetre, and probably a good deal more.

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Out of the exhaustless reservoir of his will he seemed to be injecting an electric strength into the other, a steadying and even flow of power that passed from his hands and into the body of Calamity.

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Electric strength that kills the germ of separateness, making whole!

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