electric fieldnoun [ C ]
specializedthe area surrounding an object with an electrical charge where positive and negative particles are reacting with each other
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- Every element of volume rendered a conductor therefore furnishes, in an electric field, equal quantities of positive and negative electricity.
- Here, also, pure observation of the effect of a conductor in an electric field tells us that its action consists in the annihilation of the field.
- If the gas thus ionised be left to itself, in the absence of any electric field, the ions, yielding to their mutual attraction, must finally meet, combine, and reconstitute a neutral molecule, thus returning to their initial condition.
- The drive unit would take water into itself, separate the ionized molecules, and expose them to an electric field.
- The two faces of the cathode seem to emit rays which are deviated in a direction perpendicular to the lines of force by an electric field, and do not seem to be electrified.