ELECTROSTATIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electrostatic mean? 

• ELECTROSTATIC (adjective)
  The adjective ELECTROSTATIC has 1 sense:

1. concerned with or producing or caused by static electricity

  Familiarity information: ELECTROSTATIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTROSTATIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Concerned with or producing or caused by static electricity

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

electrostatic; static

Context example:

an electrostatic generator produces high-voltage static electricity

Pertainym:

static electricity (electricity produced by friction)

Derivation:

electrostatics (the branch of physics that deals with static electricity)

 Context examples 

The negative surface charge of nanoparticles enabled electrostatic interactions with therapeutics thus resulting in the slow release of therapeutics.

(Injectable Bandage Created, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Testing the device for malfunctions related to the transfer of an electrostatic charge (by direct contact or from electrostatic fields) between objects of different potentials.

(Device Electrostatic Discharge Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

“These electrostatic forces increase frictional thresholds,” said Josh Mendez Harper, a Georgia Tech geophysics and electrical engineering doctoral student who is the paper’s lead author.

('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)

Affecting biological factors or systems, a Biophysical Process is a subatomic, atomic, or molecular process that involves passive, physical movement; attraction or repulsion (electrostatic, van der Waals, gradient, hydrogen bonding, hydrophobic, hydrophilic, etc.); radiation interaction; or non-enzymatic formation of covalent bonds.

(Biophysical Process, NCI Thesaurus)

These non-silicate, granular materials can hold their electrostatic charges for days, weeks or months at a time under low-gravity conditions, said George McDonald, a graduate student in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences who also co-authored the paper.

('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)

If you grabbed piles of grains and built a sand castle on Titan, it would perhaps stay together for weeks due to their electrostatic properties, said Josef Dufek, the Georgia Tech professor who co-led the study.

('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)