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/
• (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

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

Translations

unit of electrical charge

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

  Mandarin: 庫侖 (zh), 库仑 (zh) (kùlún)

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

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

  Cyrillic: кулон

  Roman: kulon (sh)

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

Anagrams

• columbo

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Asturian

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulombs)

1. coulomb (unit of electrical charge)

Synonyms

• culombiu

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Czech

Noun

coulomb m

1. coulomb (unit of electric charge)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kuˈlɔ̃]

• Audio

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Noun

coulomb m (plural coulombs)

1. coulomb

Derived terms

• Coulombinteractie

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.lɔ̃/

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulombs)

1. coulomb

Further reading

• “coulomb” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Etymology

English

Noun

coulomb m (invariable)

1. coulomb

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Portuguese

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulombs)

1. coulomb (unit of electrical charge)

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Spanish

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulomb)

1. coulomb

Synonyms

• culombio