ELECTRIC CHARGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electric charge mean? 

• ELECTRIC CHARGE (noun)
  The noun ELECTRIC CHARGE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ELECTRIC CHARGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTRIC CHARGE (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

charge; electric charge

Context example:

the battery needed a fresh charge

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 

An electrical device designed to store an electric charge.

(Capacitor Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

A fundamental physical constant equal to the scalar value of positive electric charge carried by a single proton or equivalently, the negative charge carried by a single electron.

(Elementary Charge, NCI Thesaurus)

Electrolytes are minerals in your body that have an electric charge.

(Fluid and Electrolyte Balance, NIH)

Having no net electric charge; not electrified.

(Neutral Charge, NCI Thesaurus)

Field of force associated with a moving electric charge and consisting of electric and magnetic fields that are generated at right angles to each other.

(Electromagnetic field, NCI Thesaurus)

An electrochemical process in which macromolecules or colloidal particles with a net electric charge migrate in a solution under the influence of an electric current.

(Electrophoresis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A measure of the electric charge and the time in which the charge is dispersed.

(Milliampere second, NCI Thesaurus)

A physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons; energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor.

(Electricity, NCI Thesaurus)

The study shows that this plasma void behind Phobos may create a situation where astronauts and rovers build up significant electric charges.

(Solar Eruptions Could Electrify Martian Moons, NASA)

When people are feeling excited, fearful, or anxious, the electric charge travels faster through the skin, providing an objective way for researchers to gauge social anxiety and other forms of psychological arousal.

(Animals’ presence may ease social anxiety in kids with autism, NIH)