Electricity

Electricity

A database referring to the existence of a flow of electric charge.

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international system of units (SI)

Electrical equipment; Electricity

A universal system of units in which the following six units of measure are considered basic: meter, kilogram, second, ampere, Kelvin degree and candela.

interrupter switch

Electrical equipment; Electricity

A switch equipped with an interrupter for making or breaking connections under load

interrupting medium

Electrical equipment; Electricity

The "fluid" used to interrupt the flow of electric current in a switch or circuit breaker. In high power equipment, this may be oil, insulating gas or even no material, as is the case of vacuum ...

interrupting rating

Electrical equipment; Electricity

The rating of a device to interrupt the flow of power or current, generally applied to a circuit breaker or a switch.

interruption

Electrical equipment; Electricity

The loss of electric service to one or more customers or other facilities. It is the result of one or more component outages.

interruption duration

Electrical equipment; Electricity

The period from the initiation of an interruption to a customer or other facility to the time the service is restored.

interruption, momentary

Electrical equipment; Electricity

An interruption of a duration limited to the period required to restore service by automatic or supervisory controlled switching operations or by manual switching at locations where operators are ...