ELECTRICAL POWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electrical power mean? 

• ELECTRICAL POWER (noun)
  The noun ELECTRICAL POWER has 1 sense:

1. the product of voltage and current

  Familiarity information: ELECTRICAL POWER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTRICAL POWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The product of voltage and current

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

electric power; electrical power; wattage

Hypernyms ("electrical power" is a kind of...):

power ((physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electrical power"):

load (the power output of a generator or power plant)

 Context examples 

An opening in a device that allows something to exit, commonly used to refer to an electrical power recepticle.

(Outlet Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

So imagine if you could convert that engine heat into electrical power for a hybrid car.

(Harvesting Electrical Power from Waste Heat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The opposite, converting heat into electrical power, isn't so easy.

(Harvesting Electrical Power from Waste Heat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Directly converting electrical power to heat is easy.

(Harvesting Electrical Power from Waste Heat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A tiny silicon-based device was created by researchers making them able to harness heat from waste and convert it to it into DC electrical power.

(Harvesting Electrical Power from Waste Heat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)