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Meanings of electric charge in English

Russian
заряд
Portuguese
carga elétrica
Catalan
càrrega elèctrica
Spanish
carga eléctrica
Wikidata

Physical property that quantifies an object's interaction with electric fields.

заряд
Portuguese
carga eletrica
Catalan
càrrega elèctrica

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

carga eletrica
Usage of electric charge in English
1
And his body of work can hit you like an electric charge.
Ebony
2
Her whole body recoiled from it, as if from an electric charge.
The passage
3
The circular marine creatures generate and store electric charge in their bodies.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
4
He felt something like an electric charge jump from her to him.
The drawing of the three
5
The señora's eyes caught hers, and an electric charge passed through Imelda.
Rebel island
6
However, there are two kinds of electric charge: positive and negative.
A briefer history of time
7
I hear a loud buzz coming from the second fence, an electric charge.
Allegiant
8
The electric charge in the nucleus is all carried by protons.
Alice in quantumland: an allegory of quantum physics
9
The electric charge on these plates creates an electric field inside the capacitor.
Wired
10
The separation of electric charge by friction occurs all the time.
The Irish Times
11
Maguire's fear ran back through the phone line like a mild electric charge.
Complete Books of Blood
12
An electric charge of one hundred joules shot through Kenichi's body.
Gravity
13
It takes a direct electric charge to set that stuff off.
Treachery in Outer Space
14
With a full electric charge, it has a range of up to 51km.
The Irish Times
15
When their hands touched accidentally, it was like an electric charge between them.
Rage of angels
16
Since these discoveries we can recognise a single molecule, bearing an electric charge.
The Story of Evolution
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