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Coulomb(medicine)
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Coulomb noun. In sense 2 coulomb. M19.
[C. A. de Coulomb (1736-1806), French physicist.]
Physics.
Used attrib. and in possess. with ref. to Coulomb's work in electrostatics. M19.
Coulomb force the electrostatic force of attraction or repulsion exerted by one charged particle on another. Coulomb interaction the electrostatic interaction between charged particles. Coulomb law, Coulomb's law: that like charges repel and opposite charges attract, with a force proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
The SI unit of electric charge; the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by a current of one ampere. (Symbol C.) L19.
cou'lombian, Cou'lombian adjective = coulombic E20.
cou'lombic, Cou'lombic adjective of or pertaining to Coulomb or the force, laws, etc., named after him M20.