Word Meanings - MICROCOULOMB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A measure of electrical quantity; the millionth part of one coulomb.

Related words: (words related to MICROCOULOMB)

• COULOMB METER
  Any instrument by which electricity can be measured in coulombs.
• MEASURER
  One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
• COULOMB'S LAW
  The law that the force exerted between two electric or magnetic charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely to the square of the distance between them.
• QUANTITY
  1. The attribute of being so much, and not more or less; the property of being measurable, or capable of increase and decrease, multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which answers the question "How much"; measure in
• MEASURELESS
  Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable. -- Meas"ure*less*ness, n. Syn. -- Boundless; limitless; endless; unbounded; unlimited; vast; immense; infinite; immeasurable. Where Alf, the sacred river ran, Through canyons measureless to man, Down to
• COULOMB
  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 quantitty
• MEASURE
  The space between two bars. See Beat, Triple, Quadruple, Sextuple, Compound time, under Compound, a., and Figure. The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic
• MEASURED
  Regulated or determined by a standard; hence, equal; uniform; graduated; limited; moderated; as, he walked with measured steps; he expressed himself in no measured terms. -- Meas"ured*ly, adv.
• ELECTRICALNESS
  The state or quality of being electrical.
• MILLIONTH
  Being the last one of a million of units or objects counted in regular order from the first of a series or succession; being one of a million.
• ELECTRICALLY
  In the manner of electricity, or by means of it; thrillingly.
• MEASUREMENT
  1. The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required. 2. The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres.
• MICROCOULOMB
  A measure of electrical quantity; the millionth part of one coulomb.
• MEGACOULOMB
  A million coulombs.
• IMMEASURED
  Immeasurable. Spenser.
• ADMEASURE
  To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone. 2. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size. (more info) 1. To measure.
• REMEASURE
  To measure again; to retrace. They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right. Fairfax.
• OUTMEASURE
  To exceed in measure or extent; to measure more than. Sir T. Browne.
• WATER MEASURE
  A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. The water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the Winchester bushel. Cowell.
• OVERMEASURE
  To measure or estimate too largely.
• PASSYMEASURE
  See SHAK
• MAGNETO-ELECTRIC; MAGNETO-ELECTRICAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, electricity by the action of magnets; as, magneto-electric induction. Magneto-electric machine, a form of dynamo-electric machine in which the field is maintained by permanent steel magnets instead of
• DISQUANTITY
  To diminish the quantity of; to lessen. Shak.
• WATER MEASURER
  Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.
• ADMEASURER
  One who admeasures.