COULOMB'S LAW

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A fundamental principle of electrostatics; the force of attraction or repulsion between two charged particles is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the distance between them; principle also holds for magnetic poles

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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Coulomb's Law" is a kind of...):

law; law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature)

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