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ELECTRIC FIELD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A field of force surrounding a charged particle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("electric field" is a kind of...):
field; field of force; force field (the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electric field"):
electrostatic field (electric field associated with static electric charges)
Context examples:
Administration of drug by way of diffusion, through a membrane in an electric field.
(Electro-osmosis Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)
Administration of through the diffusion of substance through a membrane in an electric field.
(Electro-osmosis Route of Administration, Food and Drug Administration/CDISC)
Our work shows that the third harmonic generation efficiency in graphene can be increased by over 10 times by tuning an applied electric field, said lead author Giancarlo Soavi, of the Cambridge Graphene Centre.
(Graphene paves the way to faster high-speed communications, University of Cambridge)
A constant of proportionality that exists between electric displacement and electric field intensity in a vacuum.
(Electric Permittivity of Vacuum, NCI Thesaurus)
When light and electric fields were blocked, starved worms burrowed down, while well-fed worms migrated up.
(Magnetic Field Sensor Unearthed in Worms, NIH)
The researchers laid metallic gates over a semiconductor and applied a voltage, which generated a complex electric field.
(Quantum state of single electrons controlled by ‘surfing’ on sound waves, University of Cambridge)
This created a geomagnetic disturbance, which distorted Earth’s magnetic field lines and induced an electric field on the surface.
(Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity, NASA)
The amount of drug can be controlled by tuning the strength of the electric field.
(Electronic device implanted in the brain could stop seizures, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A technique for determining the zeta potential of a sample through the detection of the motion of dispersed particles relative to a fluid under the influence of an oscillating electric field.
(Electrophoretic Light Scattering, NCI Thesaurus)
The motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode.
(Electrophoresis, NCI Thesaurus)
