See Also: bail(medicine)
bail-out(dictionary)
Bail(law)
bail(encyclopedia)
bail(7)(dictionary)
Go Bail(law)
bail(6)(dictionary)
bail(5)(dictionary)
bail(4)(dictionary)
bail(3)(dictionary)

electric potential (sh) and bail(6) (iou)


electric potential (sh)




Amount of work needed to move a unit electric charge from a Reference point to a specific point against an electric field.

The potential energy of a positive charge increases when it moves against an electric field, and decreases when it moves with the field. Electric potential can be thought of as potential energy per unit charge. The work done in moving a unit charge from one point to another, as in an electric circuit, is equal to the difference in potential energies at each point. Electric potential is expressed in units of joules per coulomb, or volts.


bail(6) (iou)



bail verb2. Exc. in sense 1, Austral. & NZ. L16.
[App. from Old French baillier enclose, shut, rel. to baille BAIL noun2: the priority of baille or baillier is uncertain.]
verb trans. Confine. rare. L16.
verb trans. Secure the head of (a cow) in a bail while milking. Usu. foll. by up. M19.
verb trans. Make (a person) hold up the arms to be robbed; detain or buttonhole (a person); corner (a wild animal). Usu. foll. by up. M19.
verb intrans. Surrender (by throwing up the arms). Usu. foll. by up. M19.