electric charge

1. 1.

   the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons

   “the battery needed a fresh charge”

   Synonymscharge

   Broaderelectrical phenomenon

   Narrowerelectrostatic chargepositive chargenegative charge

Questions about electric charge

What does electric charge mean?

electric charge means "the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons".

What is another word for electric charge?

Close synonyms include charge. 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 electric charge a common word?

electric 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.