NEGATIVE CHARGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does negative charge mean? 

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

1. having a surplus of electrons; having a lower electric potential

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEGATIVE CHARGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a surplus of electrons; having a lower electric potential

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("negative 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)

Antonym:

positive charge (having a deficiency of electrons; having a higher electric potential)

 Context examples 

A small particle with a negative charge that is found in all atoms.

(Electron, NCI Dictionary)

An atom or molecule having a positive or negative charge owing to the loss or gain of one or more electrons.

(Ion, NCI Thesaurus)

Any portion of a protein molecule with a net negative charge.

(Acidic Region, 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)

A fundamental particle with a negative charge.

(Electron, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-essential amino acid in humans, Aspartic Acid has an overall negative charge and plays an important role in the synthesis of other amino acids and in the citric acid and urea cycles.

(Aspartic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Stable elementary particles having the smallest known negative charge, present in all elements; also called negatrons.

(Electron, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

An Oxidation-Reduction Interaction is a non-enzymatic physical interaction between atoms or radicals in which the positive charges on an atom increase (or the negative charges on that atom decrease) while the negative charges on the other atom increase (or the positive charges on that other atom decrease).

(Oxidation-Reduction Interaction, NCI Thesaurus)

The unit is usually expressed in grams and is equal to the amount of substance that gains or loses one mole of electrons in a redox reaction, or to the amount of substances that releases or accepts one mole of hydrogen ions in a neutralization reaction; or to the amount of electrolyte that carries one mole of positive or negative charge.

(Equivalent Weight, NCI Thesaurus)

Anion Transporter Binding involves temporary non-covalent interaction of a molecule through intermolecular physical forces of attraction with an anion transporter protein that moves the bound ion carrying a negative charge across a cell membrane with or against a concentration gradient.

(Anion Transporter Binding, NCI Thesaurus)