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electrical field

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  1. A quantity proportional to the force that would be exerted on an electrical charge if it were located at a given point. Electrical fields are usually associated with the presence of other electrical charges.


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The electrical field created by the device’s magnetic technology is exponentially greater than anything a shark would encounter naturally, so they instinctively avoid it.

From The Wall Street Journal May 31, 2026

We describe nail polish formulations that achieve sufficient conductivity to disrupt the stored electrical field in capacitive touchscreens and register as touch events.

From Science Daily Mar. 26, 2026

"These liquid crystals… we can rotate them with an electrical field," explains Mr Eiden.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2025

To get a sense of what this animal attraction might mean for a potential tick host in nature, Dr. England designed a computer model of the electrical field around a cow.

From New York Times Jun. 30, 2023

The dees’ interior was to be free of any electrical field, which he thought would interfere with the magnetic field keeping the particles in their spiral.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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