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Princeton's WordNet

  1. electric fieldnoun

    a field of force surrounding a charged particle

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  1. electric fieldnoun

    A region of space around a charged particle, or between two voltages; it exerts a force on charged objects in its vicinity.

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  1. electric field

    An electric field is a region or space around a charged particle in which another charged particle experiences an electric force. It is a vector field characterized by the electric force that a test particle would experience at any given point, and its strength and direction depend on the positive or negative charge that generated it. It is usually represented by electric field lines where the density of lines is proportional to the field's strength.

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  1. Electric field

    An electric field surrounds electrically charged particles and time-varying magnetic fields. The electric field depicts the surrounding force of an electrically charged particle exerted on other electrically charged objects. The concept of an electric field was introduced by Michael Faraday.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of electric field in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of electric field in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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  1. Andrew Hsu:

    There’s moisture in that sausage, so long as your body is in contact with it, it has enough conductivity to affect the electric field.

  2. Vanderbilt University neurobiologist Kenneth Catania:

    What I like about these findings is they are inevitable and yet incredible, we know from basic physics that bringing two electrical poles together concentrates the electric field, and we know from basic muscle physiology that running a muscle too fast for too long causes exhaustion. But I would never have imagined an electric eel could produce the same results.


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