coulomb

Other forms of coulomb

plural

coulombs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about coulomb

What does coulomb mean?

coulomb means "a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coulomb?

coulomb has 2 syllables: cou-lomb. The stress falls on "cou".

What is another word for coulomb?

Close synonyms include C, ampere-second, Charles Augustin de Coulomb. 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 coulomb a common word?

coulomb 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.