equipotential

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The term equipotential is also used as a noun, referring to an equipotential line or surface.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Since the electric field lines point radially away from the charge, they are perpendicular to the equipotential lines.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Sketch the equipotential lines in the vicinity of two opposite charges, where the negative charge is three times as great in magnitude as the positive.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

This implies that a conductor is an equipotential surface in static situations.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

In this way the equipotential lines can easily be picked out.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various