ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electrostatic charge mean? 

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

1. the electric charge at rest on the surface of an insulated body (which establishes and adjacent electrostatic field)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The electric charge at rest on the surface of an insulated body (which establishes and adjacent electrostatic field)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("electrostatic 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)

 Context examples 

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)