electrostatic charge

1. 1.

   the electric charge at rest on the surface of an insulated body (which establishes and adjacent electrostatic field)

   Broadercharge

Questions about electrostatic charge

What does electrostatic charge mean?

electrostatic charge means "the electric charge at rest on the surface of an insulated body (which establishes and adjacent electrostatic field)".

Is electrostatic charge a common word?

electrostatic 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.