Charge

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Charge or charged may refer to:

  • Charge (basketball), illegal contact by pushing or moving into another player's torso
  • Charge (fanfare), a six-note trumpet or bugle piece denoting the call to rush forward
  • Charge (heraldry), any object depicted on a shield
  • Charge (pen spinning), a pen-spinning trick
  • Charge (warfare), a maneuver where soldiers rush towards the enemy to engage in close combat
  • Charge (youth), an underage person placed under the supervision of a nobleman
  • ChargĂ© d'affaires, two classes of diplomatic agents
  • Criminal charge, a formal accusation made before a court by a prosecuting authority
  • Charge (bugle call), a bugle call which signals to execute a charge

Mathematics, science, and technology

  • Charge (engine), the air and/or fuel mixture being fed to an internal combustion engine
  • Charge (physics), the susceptibility of a body to one of the fundamental forces
    • Color charge, a property of quarks and gluons, related to their strong interactions
    • Electric charge, a property which determines the electromagnetic interaction of subatomic particles
    • Magnetic charge, a property of theoretical magnetic monopoles
  • CHARGE syndrome, a specific set of birth defects in children
  • Explosive charge, a measured quantity of explosive material
  • Signed measure, in mathematics, a generalization of the concept of a measure that is allowed to have negative values
  • Charge (chemistry)

Finance

  • Debit
  • Charge card, anything similar to a credit card
  • Equitable charge, confers a right on the secured party to look to a particular asset in the event of the debtor's default
  • Floating charge, a security interest over the assets of a company

Entertainment

See also

  • Charger (disambiguation)
  • All pages beginning with "Charge"
  • All pages with titles containing "Charge"

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