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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The force exerted by stationary objects bearing electric charge on other stationary objects bearing electric charge, being repulsive if the objects have charges of the same sign, and attractive if the objects have charges of opposite signs. The strength of the force is described by Coulomb's law.
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- proper noun physics the
electrostatic force between twocharges , as described byCoulomb's law
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Charles Augustin de Coulomb.]
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