equipotential
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Isolines in a region where an electric field exists represent lines of equal electric potential, referred to as equipotential lines.
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The potential is the same along each equipotential line, meaning that no work is required to move a charge anywhere along one of those lines.
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Since the electric field lines point radially away from the charge, they are perpendicular to the equipotential lines.
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The equipotential lines can be drawn by making them perpendicular to the electric field lines, if those are known.
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It cuts at right angles every equipotential surface which it meets.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section I, J, K, and L by Project Gutenberg
