static electricity

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   electricity produced by friction

   Broaderelectricity

Questions about static electricity

What does static electricity mean?

static electricity means "electricity produced by friction".

Is static electricity a common word?

static electricity 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.