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ELECTRIC CHARGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons
Example:
the battery needed a fresh charge
Synonyms:
charge; electric charge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("electric charge" is a kind of...):
electrical phenomenon (a physical phenomenon involving electricity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electric charge"):
electrostatic charge (the electric charge at rest on the surface of an insulated body (which establishes and adjacent electrostatic field))
positive charge (having a deficiency of electrons; having a higher electric potential)
negative charge (having a surplus of electrons; having a lower electric potential)
Context examples:
Sand on Earth also can pick up an electric charge, but the grains are much smaller and dissipate rapidly.
('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)
One ampere represents 6.24 x 10E18 unit electric charge carriers, such as electrons, passing a specified fixed point in one second.
(Ampere, NCI Thesaurus)
When a harvester yarn is twisted or stretched, the volume of the carbon nanotube yarn decreases, bringing the electric charges on the yarn closer together and increasing their energy, Haines said.
(Energy-Harvesting Yarns Generate Electricity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A unit of electric charge density used to express a number of lines of electric force emanated or absorbed by an electric charge equal to one coulomb per unit area equal to one square meter.
(Coulomb per Square Meter, NCI Thesaurus)
A constant used also as a unit of electric charge representing the electric charge carried by one mole (an Avogadro's number) of electrons or one equivalent of ions, and equal to the quantity of electricity that is capable of depositing or liberating one gram equivalent weight of a substance in electrolysis, approximately 9.6494E4 coulombs.
(Faraday, NCI Thesaurus)
It is used as a unit of electric charge in the system of atomic units.
(Elementary Charge, NCI Thesaurus)
