electrostatic force
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Coulomb force, the attraction or repulsion between particles based on their electric charge.
Example Sentences
- "Relation between electrostatic force and variation of electric potential.—§ 7, otherwise stated, is equivalent to this:—the average component electrostatic force in the straight line of air between two points in the neighborhood of an electrified body is equal to their difference of potentials divided by their distance."
- "Coulomb’s law describes the electrostatic forces exerted between pairs of charges, but practical situations are rarely that simple."
Etymology
From electrostatic + force.