conservation of charge

1. 1.

   the principle that the total electric charge of a system remains constant despite changes inside the system

   Synonymsconservation of electricity

   Broaderconservation

Questions about conservation of charge

What does conservation of charge mean?

conservation of charge means "the principle that the total electric charge of a system remains constant despite changes inside the system".

What is another word for conservation of charge?

Close synonyms include conservation of electricity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is conservation of charge a common word?

conservation of charge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.