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electric field
  میدان ِ برقی  
meydân-e barqi (#)
Fr.: champ électrique  

The effect produced by the existence of an → electric charge in the volume of space that surrounds it. The direction of the field is taken to be the direction of the force it would exert on a positive test charge. The electric field is radially outward from a positive charge and radially in toward a negative point charge.

See also: → electric; → field.