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
• 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

Noun

coulomb m

1. coulomb (unit of electric charge)

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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/

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulombs)

1. coulomb

Further reading

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

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Italian

Etymology

From 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

   Synonym: culombio