WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
elec′tric charge′, [Physics.]
- Electricity, Physicsone of the basic properties of the elementary particles of matter giving rise to all electric and magnetic forces and interactions. The two kinds of charge are given negative and positive algebraic signs: measured in coulombs. Also called charge, electricity.
'electric charge' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Gauss law
- Leyden jar
- Rutherford scattering
- Wimshurst machine
- ampere-hour
- anelectric
- bottom quark
- capacitance
- capacitor
- charge
- charge carrier
- charged
- charmed quark
- conservation of charge
- coulomb
- coulometer
- current
- dead
- delta particle
- discharge
- down quark
- electric
- electric current
- electric potential
- electricity
- electrocratic
- electromagnetic wave
- electronegative
- electronic
- electronic ink
- electroplaque
- electropositive
- electroscope
- elementary charge
- free charge
- induction
- isotopic spin
- kaon
- magnetism
- minus
- negative
- point charge
- polarity
- polarization charge
- positive
- quantum chromodynamics
- quark
- repulsion
- sigma particle
- space charge