Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The meter-kilogram-second unit of electrical charge equal to the quantity of charge transferred in one second by a steady current of one ampere. See Table at measurement.
- adj. Of or relating to the Coulomb force.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The unit of quantity in measurements of current electricity; the quantity furnished by a current of one ampere in one second. See ampere.
Wiktionary
- n. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electric charge; the amount of electric charge carried by a current of 1 ampere flowing for 1 second. Symbol: C
- n. Jewelry: pendant. From the homophone for Coulomb in Russian, кулон.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Physics) The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantity transferred by one ampère in one second. Formerly called
weber .
WordNet 3.0
- n. French physicist famous for his discoveries in the field of electricity and magnetism; formulated Coulomb's Law (1736-1806)
- n. a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second
Etymologies
- Borrowing from French coulomb. Named after the French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb. (Wiktionary)
- After Charles Augustin de Coulomb. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Instead of focusing on real experimental facts (generation of excess heat) discussion quickly shifted to theoretical considerations, such as coulomb barrier, expectations based on wrong models, etc.”
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“The joule (symbol J, also called Newton meter, or coulomb volt) is the SI unit of energy and work.”
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