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COULOMB'S LAW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fundamental principle of electrostatics; the force of attraction or repulsion between two charged particles is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the distance between them; principle also holds for magnetic poles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Coulomb's Law" is a kind of...):
law; law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature)