Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to electric charges at rest.
- adjective Produced or caused by such charges.
- adjective Of or relating to electrostatics.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to statical electricity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to electrostatics.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective physics of, relating to, or produced by
electrostatics orstatic electricity
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective concerned with or producing or caused by static electricity
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is Coulomb's Law, and the force is called the electrostatic force (between the two point charges) … oh, and this is just the magnitude (force, being a vector quantity, requires a direction as well as a magnitude, to be fully specified).
Could a Black Hole Fit in Your Computer or In Your Pocket? | Universe Today 2009
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The best-selling air purifiers in the U.S. market are known as electrostatic precipitators.
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This phenomenon is called electrostatic induction or influence.
6. Electrical Field 1991
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Though the individual bonds are weak, there are a lot of them, and together they are a powerful force called electrostatic attraction.
GreenBiz.com Green Business News Tom McKeag 2009
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Boiler steam drum flue gas exits the boiler it is routed through a rotating flat basket of metal mesh which picks up heat and returns it to incoming fresh air as the basket rotates, This is called the electrostatic precipitators.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Boiler steam drum flue gas exits the boiler it is routed through a rotating flat basket of metal mesh which picks up heat and returns it to incoming fresh air as the basket rotates, This is called the electrostatic precipitators.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Boiler steam drum flue gas exits the boiler it is routed through a rotating flat basket of metal mesh which picks up heat and returns it to incoming fresh air as the basket rotates, This is called the electrostatic precipitators.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Boiler steam drum flue gas exits the boiler it is routed through a rotating flat basket of metal mesh which picks up heat and returns it to incoming fresh air as the basket rotates, This is called the electrostatic precipitators.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Boiler steam drum flue gas exits the boiler it is routed through a rotating flat basket of metal mesh which picks up heat and returns it to incoming fresh air as the basket rotates, This is called the electrostatic precipitators.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Boiler steam drum flue gas exits the boiler it is routed through a rotating flat basket of metal mesh which picks up heat and returns it to incoming fresh air as the basket rotates, This is called the electrostatic precipitators.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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