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COULOMB (C. A.) — Charles Augustin Coulomb est l’une des personnalités les plus marquantes de l’histoire des sciences et des techniques. Ses travaux ont contribué à une meilleure connaissance des phénomènes de l’électricité, du magnétisme et de la mécanique… … Encyclopédie Universelle
coulomb — [ kulɔ̃ ] n. m. • 1881; de Coulomb, n. pr. ♦ Phys. Unité de mesure de quantité d électricité et de charge électrique égale à la quantité d électricité transportée en une seconde par un courant de un ampère (symb. C). Coulomb par kilogramme :… … Encyclopédie Universelle
coulomb — COULÓMB, coulombi, s.m. Unitate de măsură pentru sarcina electrică, egală cu cantitatea de electricitate care traversează într o secundă secţiunea unui conductor străbătut de un curent electric constant de 1 amper. [pr.: culómb] – Din fr. coulomb … Dicționar Român
Coulomb — , COULOMB S LAW Charles Augustin de Coulomb (1736 1806), born into a French noble family, had available all the advantages for a good education. He attended the engineering school at Mezieres, the first school of its kind, where he showed a … Dictionary of eponyms
Coulomb — Cou lomb (k?? l?n ), n. [From Coulomb, a French physicist and electrican.] (Physics) The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro motive… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
coulomb — 1881, named for French chemist Charles Augustin de Coulomb (1736 1806), who devised a method of measuring electrical quantity. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in 1 second by a current of 1 ampere. The name is a French form of Columbus … Etymology dictionary
coulomb — (De Ch. de Coulomb, 1736 1806, físico francés). m. Fís. culombio … Diccionario de la lengua española
coulomb — ► NOUN Physics ▪ the unit of electric charge in the SI system, equal to the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by a current of one ampere. ORIGIN named after the French military engineer Charles Augustin de Coulomb (1736 1806) … English terms dictionary
coulomb — [ko͞o′läm΄, ko͞o′lōm΄] n. [after C. A. de Coulomb (1736 1806), Fr physicist] the basic unit of electric charge in the SI and MKS systems, equal to the charge of 6.281 × 1018 electrons; the charge carried by a current of one ampere in one second… … English World dictionary
Coulomb — (spr. Kulong), Charles Augustin de C., geb. 1736 in Angouleme; war Offizier des königlichen Geniecorps u. ging nach Martinique; nach seiner Rückkehr nach Europa um 1776 in Rochefort angestellt, wurde er, da er gegen das Project der Minister war,… … Pierer's Universal-Lexikon
Coulomb [1] — Coulomb (C. Sekunden Ampere, Amperesekunde), Einheit der Elektrizitätsmenge, die Elektrizitätsmenge, die bei 1 Ampere in 1 Sekunde durch den Querschnitt der Leitung fließt. S. Elektrische Maßeinheiten … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
