ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The electric charge at rest on the surface of an insulated body (which establishes and adjacent electrostatic field)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("electrostatic charge" is a kind of...):

charge; electric charge (the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons)

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