A unit of electric charge in the CGS (centimeter-gram-second) system, equal to one-tenth of a coulomb, now mostly replaced by the coulomb in SI units.
From 'ab-' (short for 'abampere,' the CGS unit of current) + 'coulomb' (named after physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb). This is a legacy unit from the older CGS system.
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