Electricity

Electricity

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

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Electricity

Operating value

Electrical equipment; Electricity

The limiting value of the characteristic quantity at which the relay actually operates.

Oscillograph

Electrical equipment; Electricity

An instrument for measuring alternating electric current or voltage by capturing the wave form. Electric Utilities use a variant called a Prefault Recorder, where the wave forms are stored for a ...

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

Electrical equipment; Electricity

Government agency which seeks to assure the safety and health of America's workers by setting and enforcing standards; providing training, outreach, and education; establishing partnerships; and ...

OSHA 29 CFR 1910, subpart s-electrical

Electrical equipment; Electricity

Occupational Safety and Health Standards. Section 1910 Subpart S-Electrical Standard number 1910.333 specifically addresses Standards for Work Practices.

OSI 7-layer model

Electrical equipment; Electricity

The Open System Interconnection 7-layer model is a model developed by ISO for modelling of a communications network.

Outage

Electrical equipment; Electricity

The state of a component or part of a power system that is not available for service because of some event associated with the component of power system. These are the longer term events (several ...

Outage, forced

Electrical equipment; Electricity

1. An outage that results from conditions directly associated with a power system component requiring that it be taken out of service either automatically or after switching operations can be ...