electrostatic unit

1. 1.

   any of various units of electricity based on forces of interaction between electric charges

   Broaderunit of measurement

Questions about electrostatic unit

What does electrostatic unit mean?

electrostatic unit means "any of various units of electricity based on forces of interaction between electric charges".

Is electrostatic unit a common word?

electrostatic unit 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.