noun
- Plural of abcoulomb; a unit of electric charge in the centimeter-gram-second (CGS) electromagnetic system, equal to one-tenth of a coulomb.
Usage: technical; physics; rarely used in modern practice; the coulomb is the standard SI unit
Examples
- The physicist measured the charge in abcoulombs using the older CGS system.
- One abcoulomb equals 0.1 coulombs in the International System of Units.
- Historical physics texts often reference abcoulombs when discussing electromagnetic phenomena.
- The conversion from abcoulombs to coulombs is straightforward in modern calculations.