electrification

See also: électrification

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.
Latin ēlectrum
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
New Latin ēlectricusbor.
English electric
English -fy
English electrify
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English electrification

    From electrify + -ation.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ɪˈlɛktɹɪfɪkeɪʃən/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
    • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

    Noun

    electrification (countable and uncountable, plural electrifications)

    1. The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
    2. The adaptation (of a home, farm, village, city, countryside, industry, railroad) for electric power.
      Coordinate terms: mechanization, electronification, computerization, digitalization, automation, automatization; wiring (sometimes contextually synonymous)
      rural electrification
      • 2011, Cameron Clifford, Farms, Flatlanders, and Fords: A Story of People and Place in Rural Vermont 1890-2010:
        As temperature regulations and quality-control issues were of paramount importance [in American dairying circa the 1920s to 1940s], the superiority of electric milk coolers became recognized. Electrification itself became important to North Pomfret residents. Persis Johnson summed the feeling up best: “You could do a lot with electricity.” Electric household appliances promised to ease labor, lights illuminated the night, and electricity in the barn efficiently operated milking machines and cooled milk in special electric coolers. Before electric companies expanded their power lines into North Pomfret, some residents installed “Delco” household electric-generating systems, which essentially were home-based power plants. Delco systems worked well, but required regular maintenance. Nevertheless, they remained popular until the electrification of North Pomfret was completed. Electrifying the neighborhood took years. […] Electrification helped farmers, but in addition, the farm routine was greatly simplified because milk itself became the desired commodity instead of cream and butter. Milk trucks traveled to neighborhoods like North Pomfret to pick up cans of milk and haul them to the creamery for processing. The empty cans were returned to the farm when the next load was picked up. This required the farmer to purchase and keep extra milk cans on hand, but that was a small price to pay for convenience. Platforms were erected by the side of the main road through Pomfret so that during the winter farmers could sleigh their milk cans to them for pickup by the milk trucks, which were unable to navigate the infrequently maintained back roads where many farmers lived.
      • 2019 October, Dan Harvey, “Midlands Connect touts direct city links”, in Modern Railways, page 9:
        The proposed Bedford-Leeds service requires the electrification of the Midland main line north of Market Harborough (it assumes that Kettering to Market Harborough is a done deal) and the Birmingham-Nottingham service requires electrification west of Nottingham.
      • 2019 November 6, “Network News”, in Rail, page 24:
        Transport Scotland's Director of Rail Bill Reeve has raised the prospect of electrification in Scotland being extended to connect all of the nation's seven cities. With the Scottish Government due to publish its plans in the spring for achieving a zero net carbon railway by 2035, Reeve told RAIL that "the working assumption" is that it will include the erection of wires to Perth, Aberdeen, Inverness and Dundee.

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