electric field

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   a field of force surrounding a charged particle

   Broaderfield

   Narrowerelectrostatic field

Questions about electric field

What does electric field mean?

electric field means "a field of force surrounding a charged particle".

Is electric field a common word?

electric field 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.