coulomb

See also: Coulomb

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French coulomb. Named after the French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkuː.lɒm/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈku.lɑm/, /ˈku.loʊm/

Noun

coulomb (plural coulombs)

1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electric charge; the amount of electric charge carried by a current of 1 ampere flowing for 1 second. Symbol: C

   He is charged up with enough coulombs to make his hair stand on end.

Derived terms

• Coulomb attraction
• Coulomb barrier
• Coulomb blockade
• Coulomb collision
• Coulomb explosion
• Coulomb force
• Coulomb gauge
• coulombic
• Coulomb repulsion
• Coulomb's constant
• Coulomb's law
• coulometer
• coulometric
• coulometry

 

Translations

unit of electrical charge

• Arabic: كُولُون‎ m (kulūn)
• Asturian: culombiu m, coulomb m
• Catalan: coulomb (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 庫侖 (zh), 库仑 (zh) (kùlún)

• Czech: coulomb m
• Dutch: coulomb (nl) m
• Finnish: coulombi (fi)
• French: coulomb (fr) m
• Galician: culombio (gl) m, coulomb (gl) m
• German: Coulomb (de) n
• Greek: κουλόμπ n (koulómp)
• Hindi: कूलाम्ब ? (kūlāmb)
• Hungarian: coulomb (hu)
• Icelandic: kúlomb ?
• Indonesian: coulomb

• Italian: coulomb (it) m
• Japanese: クーロン (ja) (kūron)
• Korean: 쿨롱 (kullong)
• Lithuanian: kulonas ?
• Malay: kulum, coulomb
• Polish: kulomb (pl) m, amperosekunda f
• Portuguese: coulomb (pt) m
• Romanian: coulomb (ro) m
• Russian: куло́н (ru) m (kulón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ку̀ло̄н m

  Roman: kùlōn (sh) m

• Slovene: kulón m, coulomb ?
• Spanish: culombio (es) m, coulomb (es) m
• Vietnamese: coulomb (vi), culông

Anagrams

• columbo

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Asturian

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulombs)

1. coulomb (unit of electrical charge)

   Synonym: culombiu

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkulomp]
• Hyphenation: cou‧lomb

Noun

coulomb m inan

1. coulomb (unit of electric charge)

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	coulomb	coulomby
genitive	coulombu	coulombů
dative	coulombu	coulombům
accusative	coulomb	coulomby
vocative	coulombe	coulomby
locative	coulombu	coulombech
instrumental	coulombem	coulomby

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Dutch

Etymology

Internationalism, after Charles Auguste de Coulomb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈlɔm(p)/, [kuˈlɔ̃m(p)], [kuˈlɔm(p)]

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: cou‧lomb
• Rhymes: -ɔm, -ɔmp

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulombs)

1. coulomb (unit of electric charge)

Related terms

• Coulombinteractie

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French

Etymology

Named after French physicist Charles-Augustin Coulomb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.lɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulombs)

1. coulomb

Further reading

• “coulomb”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

From English.

Noun

coulomb m (invariable)

1. coulomb

Anagrams

• Columbo

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French coulomb. Named after the French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

Noun

coulomb m (definite singular coulomben, indefinite plural coulomb, definite plural coulombene)

1. coulomb

References

• “coulomb” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “coulomb” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French coulomb. Named after the French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulomben)

1. coulomb

References

• “coulomb” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulombs)

1. coulomb (unit of electrical charge)

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Romanian

Etymology

From French coulomb

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulombi)

1. coulomb

Declension

Declension of coulomb

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) coulomb	coulombul	(niște) coulombi	coulombii
genitive/dative	(unui) coulomb	coulombului	(unor) coulombi	coulombilor
vocative	coulombule		coulombilor

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Spanish

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulomb)

1. coulomb

   Synonym: culombio

Further reading

• “coulomb”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014