COULOMB'S LAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Coulomb's Law mean? 

• COULOMB'S LAW (noun)
  The noun COULOMB'S LAW has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: COULOMB'S LAW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COULOMB'S LAW (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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Hypernyms ("Coulomb's Law" is a kind of...):

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