Artificial light using electricity as a source of illumination. / A device producing such light.

plural of electric rickshaw

A three-wheeled rickshaw pulled by an electric motor and running on battery.

(clinical psychology, psychiatry) Dated form of selective mutism (“A severe anxiety disorder characterized by a total inability to speak in some social settings”). In the past, some clinicians erroneously believed that individuals with elective mutism chose to remain silent in some social situations as an act of defiance. Contrary to what was once believed, the inability to speak (mutism) is involuntary, thus the potentially misleading term elective mutism has largely been supplanted by selective mutism.

(algebra) An element of a ring that is not a zero divisor.

(physics) The withdraw of electric charge. / (physics) The flow of electricity through the air or gas. / (physics) A sudden movement of electric charge.

Equipment used to supply power to charge an electric vehicle

(transport) A passenger bus powered by electricity via an electric motor, with the source of power either from rechargeable batteries or by drawing power from overhead wires. The latter form is generally called a trolleybus.

plural of electric bus

To self-select; to choose for oneself, rather than having another choose for one. / (transitive, intransitive) To self-appoint; to volunteer; to take on a role one has chosen for oneself.