POSITIVE CHARGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does positive charge mean? 

• POSITIVE CHARGE (noun)
  The noun POSITIVE CHARGE has 1 sense:

1. having a deficiency of electrons; having a higher electric potential

  Familiarity information: POSITIVE CHARGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSITIVE CHARGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a deficiency of electrons; having a higher electric potential

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("positive charge" is a kind of...):

charge; electric charge (the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons)

Antonym:

negative charge (having a surplus of electrons; having a lower electric potential)

 Context examples 

The motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode.

(Electrophoresis, NCI Thesaurus)

The positive charge of ambenonium allows it to act as an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor by binding to the anionic site at the reactive center of acetylcholinesterase, preventing the breakdown of acetylcholine and producing an indirect cholinomimetic effect at both nicotinic and muscarinic receptors.

(Ambenonium, NCI Thesaurus)

Unstable isotopes of high atomic number (elements of mass number from 82 up) which energetically release from their nuclei a particle consisting of two neutrons and two protons, with a positive charge (2e+) and identical to the helium nucleus.

(Alpha Particle Emitter, NCI Thesaurus)