electric bell

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   a bell activated by the magnetic effect of an electric current

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Questions about electric bell

What does electric bell mean?

electric bell means "a bell activated by the magnetic effect of an electric current".

Is electric bell a common word?

electric bell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.