electricals
- 1The electrical parts, wiring, and circuits of a device, or how those parts are arranged in its design.
The manufacturer recalled the model after faults appeared in its electricals.
Designing the electricals for a fully electric vehicle takes months of careful work.
Note
Only the plural exists in this meaning. A machine has electricals but never "an electrical," and the word takes plural agreement: the electricals were rewired, not "was." It works as a collective term for everything in a design that carries current, so it is used for the whole system rather than for any single part.
- 2Plural of electrical.
The inspector flagged several problems with the building's electricals.
Salt water got into the boat's electricals and shorted out the radio.
Note
A regular -s plural of a noun that grew out of the adjective electrical, meaning "related to electricity." As a countable noun, an electrical can be an electrical engineer, so electricals can name people as well as things. Unlike the plural-only word for a device's wiring, this one has a singular you can use on its own: one electrical, two electricals.
electricals is a form of electrical
electrical, noun: A professional who works in electrical engineering; an electrical engineer. Full entry
- Forms
- electricalelectricals plural
- Spelling
- electrical → electricals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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