Charge is a word with many different meanings. Charge - Physics. In physics, the concept of charge is derived from the observation of conserved quantum numbers. Various charge-like quantum numbers have been introduced by theories of particle physics, e.g. electric charge for electromagnetic interaction, magnetic charge (currently purely theoretic), colour charge for gluons, quark charges like strangeness, and isospin for electroweak interactions. In the formalism of particle theories charge-l ...

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CHARGING, TO CHARGE: to infuse an object with your personal power.

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In physics, the concept of charge is derived from the observation of conserved quantum numbers. Various charge-like quantum numbers have been introduced by theories of particle physics, e.g. electric charge for electromagnetic interaction, magnetic charge (currently purely theoretic), colour charge for gluons, quark charges like strangeness, and isospin for electroweak interactions. In the formalism of particle theories charge-like quantum numbers can sometimes be inverted by means of a charge conjugation operator called C ...

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During the European Middle Ages, a charge often meant an underage person placed under the supervision of a nobleman. Charges were the responsibility of the nobleman they were charged to, and they were usually expected to be treated as guests or a member of the household. Charges were at times used more or less openly as hostages, ensuring that the parents kept in line. Today, the word is still used to mean anyone that a person is responsible for, such as a parent or chaperone's children, a sup ...

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A charge is a maneuver in battle in which soldiers advance towards their enemy at their best speed to engage in close combat. The charge has been the key tactic and decisive moment of most battles in history. The basic process operating in a charge is speed of advance against rate (or effectiveness) of fire (firepower). If the attackers advance at a more rapid rate than the defenders can kill or disable them then the attackers will reach the defenders. Of course there are many modifiers to this simple comparison - timing, numbe ...

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In heraldry, a charge is the image that occupies the field on an escutcheon (or shield). The most common charges, or "ordinaries", are geometric constructs such as crosses and saltires. Other charges include animals, plants, astronomical objects and tools ranging from those of ancient vintage to locomotives (railroads also occur in the arms of a handful of units of the United States Army), airplanes (the arms of Beddington and Wallington specify a "Hannibal Aircraft"), a satellite (in the arms of Arthur Maxwell House). "Atomic" charge ...

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The Charge of the Goddess is a traditional inspirational text sometimes used in Neopaganism and Wicca. Doreen Valiente, a student of Gerald Gardner, originally wrote a Charge in verse, and later in prose: the prose version is the one known today. It has since been modified and adapted by many others, and is in the public domain. The original text of the prose version is found in Eight Sabbats for Witches by Janet and Stewart Farrar. See The Rebirth of Witchcraft by Doreen Valien ...

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In group dynamics, charge is the accumulation of anger, mistrust, frustration, and hostility about a particular person or issue. In the theory of group dynamics, when charge accumulates beyond a certain point, rational discussion becomes impossible because the emotional response is overpowering. Excessive charge sometimes drains away over time and can occasionally be overcome through mediation by a third party. Category: Group processes ...

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The Charge of the Light Brigade was an ill-advised cavalry charge, led by Lord Cardigan, which occurred during the Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 during the Crimean War. It is best remembered as the subject of a famous poem entitled The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, whose lines "Theirs not to reason why / Theirs but to do and die" have made the charge a symbol of warfare at its most reckless. Charge of the Light Brigade - Events. The charge was made by the Light Briga ...

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Charge carrier denotes in physics a free (mobile, unbound) particle carrying an electric charge. Examples are electrons and ions. In semiconductor physics, the travelling vacancies in the valance-band electron population (holes) are treated as charge carriers. In ionic solutions, the charge carriers are the dissolved cations and anions. Similarly, cations and anions of the dissociated liquid serve as charge carriers in liquids and melted ionic solids (see eg. the Hall-Herou ...

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In particle physics, color charge is a property of quarks and gluons which are related to their strong interactions in the context of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). This has analogies with the notion of electric charge of particles, but because of the mathematical complications of QCD, there are many technical differences. The "color" of quarks and gluons have nothing to do with the visual perception of color, but is a whimsical name for a property which has almost no manifestatio ...

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A charge-coupled device (CCD) is a sensor for recording images, consisting of an integrated circuit containing an array of linked, or coupled, capacitors. Under the control of an external circuit, each capacitor can transfer its electric charge to one or other of its neighbours. CCDs are used in digital photography and astronomy (particularly in photometry, optical and UV spectroscopy and high speed techniques such as lucky imaging). Charge-coupled device - History. The CCD was invented ...

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Heraldic writers have, somewhat arbitrarily, distinguished between "honourable ordinaries" and "sub-ordinaries". It is often said that only nine charges are "honourable ordinaries", but exactly which nine fit into this category is a subject of disagreement. It is sometimes said that only those ordinaries each of whose widths is one-fifth or more of the total width of the escutcheon is "honourable". Narrower or smaller versions of these ordinaries are called "diminutives". Many have two diminutives, the first with half the width of the original, and the second with quarter the width of the original. < ...

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Most armorial achievements include charges, but a few only have a plain tincture (what would be called "colour" in layman's terms, though the word has a different meaning in heraldry) without any device, or a simple division or pattern of the field. The charges are either in one or more of the tinctures, or umbrated, supposedly represented as a shadow, though the representation is closest to an outline alone (an example of similar terminology applied to the "shadows" of a charge are the arms of Risoul, Hautes Alpes, France). Even thou ...

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Charging: To infuse an object with magical power.

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Electric charge is a characteristic of subatomic particles, and is quantized. When expressed as a multiple of the so-called elementary charge e, electrons have a charge of −1. Protons have the opposite charge of +1. Quarks have a fractional charge of −1/3 or +2/3. The antiparticle equivalents of these have the opposite charge. There are other charged particles. Electric charge of a macroscopic object is the sum of the electric charges of its constituent particles. Often, the net electric charge is zero, since naturally the ...

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The shape most commonly used for the liner is a cone, with an internal apex angle of 40 to 90 degrees. Different apex angles yield different distributions of jet mass and velocity. Small apex angles can result in jet bifurcation, or even in the failure of the jet to form at all; this is attributed to the collapse velocity being above a certain threshold, normally slightly higher than the liner material's bulk sound speed. Other widely used shapes include hemispheres, tulips, trumpets, ellipses, and bi-conics; the various shapes yield jets with ...

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For optimum penetration, a high explosive with high detonation velocity and pressure is normally chosen. The most common explosive used in high performance anti-armour warheads is HMX, though it is never used on its own, as it would be too sensitive. It is normally found mixed with a few percent of some type of plastic binder, such as in the plastic bonded explosive (PBX) LX-14, or with another less-sensitive explosive, such as TNT to form Octol. Other common explosives used are RDX-based compositions, again either as PBXs or mixtures with T ...

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In a quantum field theory the notion of a coupling constant and a charge are different but related. The coupling constant sets the magnitude of the force of interaction; for example, in quantum electrodynamics, the fine structure constant is a coupling constant. The charge in a gauge theory has to do with the way a particle transforms under the gauge symmetry, ie, its representation under the gauge group. For example, the electron has charge -1 and the positron has charge +1, implying that the gauge transformation has opposite effects on the ...

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