coulomb

See also: Coulomb

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

coulomb

Wikipedia

Etymology

From French coulomb, from the French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkuː.lɒm/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈku.lɑm/, /ˈku.loʊm/

Noun

coulomb (plural coulombs)

1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electric charge; the amount of electric charge carried by a current of 1 ampere flowing for 1 second. Symbol: C

   He is charged up with enough coulombs to make his hair stand on end.

Derived terms

• abcoulomb
• Coulomb attraction
• Coulomb barrier
• Coulomb blockade
• Coulomb collision
• Coulomb explosion
• Coulomb force
• Coulomb gauge
• coulombic
• coulombmeter
• Coulomb repulsion
• Coulomb's constant
• Coulomb's law
• coulometer
• coulometric
• coulometry
• femtocoulomb
• megacoulomb
• microcoulomb
• nanocoulomb
• picocoulomb

 

Translations

unit of electrical charge

Arabic: كُولُون m (kulūn) Asturian: culombiu m, coulomb m Burmese: ကူးလောင်း (ku:laung:) Catalan: coulomb (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 庫侖／库仑 (zh) (kùlún) Czech: coulomb m Dutch: coulomb (nl) m Finnish: coulombi (fi) French: coulomb (fr) m Galician: culombio (gl) m, coulomb (gl) m German: Coulomb (de) n Greek: κουλόμπ n (koulómp) Hindi: कूलाम्ब ? (kūlāmb) Hungarian: coulomb (hu) Icelandic: kúlomb n Indonesian: coulomb Italian: coulomb (it) m Japanese: クーロン (ja) (kūron) Khmer: គូឡុំ (kuulom) Korean: 쿨롱 (kullong) Lithuanian: kulonas ? Malay: kulum (ms), coulomb Polish: kulomb (pl) m, amperosekunda f Portuguese: coulomb (pt) m Romanian: coulomb (ro) m Russian: куло́н (ru) m (kulón) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ку̀ло̄н m Roman: kùlōn (sh) m Slovene: kulón m, coulomb ? Spanish: culombio (es) m, coulomb (es) m Thai: คูลอมบ์ (kuu-lɔɔm) Turkish: coulomb Vietnamese: coulomb (vi), culông

Anagrams

• columbo

Asturian

Etymology

From French coulomb.

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulombs)

1. coulomb (unit of electrical charge)

   Synonym: culombiu

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from French coulomb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kulom/ [ku.lõm], /kulomb/ [ku.lõmb]
• Rhymes: -ulom, -ulomb

Noun

coulomb inan

1. coulomb (unit of electrical charge)

Declension

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	coulomb	coulomba	coulombak
ergative	coulombek	coulombak	coulombek
dative	coulombi	coulombari	coulombei
genitive	coulomben	coulombaren	coulomben
comitative	coulombekin	coulombarekin	coulombekin
causative	coulombengatik	coulombarengatik	coulombengatik
benefactive	coulombentzat	coulombarentzat	coulombentzat
instrumental	coulombez	coulombaz	coulombez
inessive	coulombetan	coulombean	coulombetan
locative	coulombetako	coulombeko	coulombetako
allative	coulombetara	coulombera	coulombetara
terminative	coulombetaraino	coulomberaino	coulombetaraino
directive	coulombetarantz	coulomberantz	coulombetarantz
destinative	coulombetarako	coulomberako	coulombetarako
ablative	coulombetatik	coulombetik	coulombetatik
partitive	coulombik	—	—
prolative	coulombtzat	—	—

Declension of coulomb (inanimate, ending in consonant)

Further reading

• “coulomb”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from French coulomb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkulomp]
• Hyphenation: cou‧lomb

Noun

coulomb m inan

1. coulomb (unit of electric charge)

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	coulomb	coulomby
genitive	coulombu	coulombů
dative	coulombu	coulombům
accusative	coulomb	coulomby
vocative	coulombe	coulomby
locative	coulombu	coulombech
instrumental	coulombem	coulomby

Declension of coulomb (hard masculine inanimate)

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

coulomb (eenheid)

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

From French coulomb, from Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈlɔm(p)/, [kuˈlɔ̃m(p)], [kuˈlɔm(p)]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: cou‧lomb
• Rhymes: -ɔm, -ɔmp

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulombs)

1. coulomb (unit of electric charge)

Related terms

• Coulombinteractie

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

coulomb

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

From the French physicist Charles-Augustin Coulomb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.lɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulombs)

1. coulomb

Further reading

• “coulomb”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French coulomb.

Noun

coulomb (first-person possessive coulombku, second-person possessive coulombmu, third-person possessive coulombnya)

1. (physics) coulomb: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electric charge; the amount of electric charge carried by a current of 1 ampere flowing for 1 second. Symbol: C

Further reading

• “coulomb” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English coulomb.

Noun

coulomb m (invariable)

1. coulomb

Anagrams

• Columbo

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:

coulomb

Wikipedia ^nb

Etymology

Borrowed from French coulomb, from the French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

coulomb m (definite singular coulomben, indefinite plural coulomb, definite plural coulombene)

1. coulomb

References

• “coulomb” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “coulomb” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

coulomb

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology

Borrowed from French coulomb, from the French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulomben)

1. coulomb

References

• “coulomb” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French coulomb.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuˈlõ/, /kuˈlõ.bi/, /ˈku.lõ.bi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuˈlõ/, /kuˈlõ.bi/, /ˈku.lõ.bi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuˈlõ/, /kuˈlõ.be/, /ˈku.lõ.be/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈlõ/, /kuˈlõ.bɨ/

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulombs)

1. coulomb (unit of electrical charge)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French coulomb.

Noun

coulomb m (plural coulombi)

1. coulomb

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) coulomb	coulombul	(niște) coulombi	coulombii
genitive/dative	(unui) coulomb	coulombului	(unor) coulombi	coulombilor
vocative	coulombule		coulombilor

Declension of coulomb

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French coulomb.

Noun

coulomb m (plural #)

1. coulomb

   Synonym: culombio

Further reading

• “coulomb”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014