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Definition of Electric charge

1. Noun. The quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons. "The battery needed a fresh charge"

Definition of Electric charge

1. Noun. (physics) the static electric energy of a charged body; the quantity of unbalanced positive or negative ions in or on an object; measured in coulombs ¹

2. Noun. (physics) a quantum number of some subatomic particles which determines their electromagnetic interactions; by convention the electron has an electric charge of -1, the proton +1 and quarks have fractional charge ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Electric charge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"electric charge In addition to the surface tension produced by unbalanced molecular ... We have first to consider the electric charge. In any charged body, ..."

2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The surface of a charged conductor is an equi- potential surface, because when the electric charge is in equilibrium there is no tendency for electricity to ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"Indeed, we are familiar with the idea that attraction or repulsion exerted on the electric charge which ordinary matter may bear is communicated to the ..."

4. The Elements of Physics: A College Text-book by Edward Leamington Nichols, William Suddards Franklin (1908)
"Quantity of electricity is usually spoken of as electric charge or simply as ... Units of electric charge.—The quantity of electricity transferred in one ..."

5. Physics by Ernest Fox Nichols (1907)
"First: no electric charge smaller than that carried by an atom of the hydrogen valence has yet been found. Second: all other small charges are exact ..."

6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"It is evident that if the electric charge of the sun, or rather of its ... It might, perhaps, be expected that they would lose their electric charge under ..."

7. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1908)
"Steady stress or gradual electric charge. 2. Impulse or traveling wave. 3. ... electric charge. The potential difference against ground, or pressure of the ..."

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