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What does electric field mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word electric field? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (physics) A region of space around a charged particle, or between two voltages; it exerts a force on charged objects in its vicinity.
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It's like an electron avalanche, he says, that can flood up toward the ionosphere or slide earthward, depending on the electric field direction.
Charged colloidal particles will migrate in an applied electric field, a process called electrophoresis.
The interaction strength and the relative phase of the electric field in neighboring particles both depend on polarization and frequency.
When an electric field is applied, the white particles will migrate towards the positive charge.
X rays emerge when the electrons, accelerated by a strong electric field, slam into a tungsten target.
In a strong electric field, free electrons can be accelerated onto its inner surface.

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