electrostatic
/ɪˌlɛktrə(ʊ)ˈstatɪk
/adjective Physics
Relating to stationary electric charges or fields as opposed to electric currents.Electrostatic speakers are the just about the lowest distortion drivers that can be made....
- The demonstration device shown above is an "electrostatic linear motor", that I built in January 2002.
Derivatives
electrostatically
- Along the entire trajectory, ion movements occur in an electrostatically self-consistent manner, and even interactions with buried charged histidines produce the expected nonlinearity of the current-to-voltage curve.
- We hypothesize that the reductions in mechanical stability are due to electrostatic interactions and demonstrate that the destabilization scales with an electrostatically induced tension.
- The net positive charge of the transit sequence probably allows it to approach the negatively charged chloroplast envelope electrostatically.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from electro- + static, on the pattern of hydrostatic.
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