Charge or charged may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''

Charge, Zero Emissions/Maximum Speed ''Charge, Zero Emissions/Maximum Speed'' is a documentary film by Mark Neale. The film features the introduction of Electric motorcycles and scooters, electric bike racing to the Isle of Man TT, Isle of Man races. The movie was available for sa ...

'', a 2011 documentary

Music

* ''Charge'' (David Ford album) * ''Charge'' (Machel Montano album) * '' Charge!!'', an album by The Aquabats * ''Charged'' (Nebula album) * ''Charged'' (Toshinori Kondo, Eraldo Bernocchi and Bill Laswell album)

Television

* ''Charge'' (TV series) * Charge! (TV network) * "Charged" (''Reaper''), episode 2 of season one of ''Reaper''

Companies

Charge Automotive Limited Arrival was a British electric vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Howald, Luxembourg that planned to build lightweight commercial vehicles. Research and development took place at a facility in Banbury, Oxfordshire. Arrival raised $118 mil ...

, an electric-vehicle manufacturer * Charged Productions, an animation studio *

Charged Records Charged Records was a street punk record label that was formed by Jake Kolatis of The Casualties in 1998. The label released albums from Antidote (band), Antidote, The Casualties, The Agrestix (band), The Agrestix, and The Virus (band), The Virus ...

, a record label

Finance

Equitable charge In finance, a security interest is a legal right granted by a debtor to a creditor over the debtor's property (usually referred to as the '' collateral'') which enables the creditor to have recourse to the property if the debtor defaults in mak ...

, confers a right on the secured party to look to a particular asset in the event of the debtor's default *

Floating charge In finance, a floating charge is a security interest over a fund of changing assets of a company or other legal person. Unlike a fixed charge, which is created over ascertained and definite property, a floating charge is created over property of ...

, a security interest over the assets of a company

Law

Criminal charge A criminal charge is a formal accusation made by a governmental authority (usually a public prosecutor or the police) asserting that somebody has committed a crime. A charging document, which contains one or more criminal charges or counts, can t ...

, a formal accusation made before a court by a prosecuting authority * Legal charge,

information Information is an Abstraction, abstract concept that refers to something which has the power Communication, to inform. At the most fundamental level, it pertains to the Interpretation (philosophy), interpretation (perhaps Interpretation (log ...

indictment An indictment ( ) is a formal accusation that a person has committed a crime. In jurisdictions that use the concept of felonies, the most serious criminal offense is a felony; jurisdictions that do not use that concept often use that of an ind ...

through a formal legal process

Mathematics, science, and technology

Charge (physics) In physics, a charge is any of many different quantities, such as the electric charge in electromagnetism or the color charge in quantum chromodynamics. Charges correspond to the time-invariant generators of a symmetry group, and specificall ...

, the susceptibility (state of being affected) of a body to one of the fundamental forces **

Color charge Color charge is a property of quarks and gluons that is related to the particles' strong interactions in the theory of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Like electric charge, it determines how quarks and gluons interact through the strong force; ho ...

, a property of quarks and gluons, related to their strong interactions **

Electric charge Electric charge (symbol ''q'', sometimes ''Q'') is a physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when placed in an electromagnetic field. Electric charge can be ''positive'' or ''negative''. Like charges repel each other and ...

, a property which determines the electromagnetic interaction of subatomic particles ** Magnetic charge, a property of theoretical magnetic monopoles * Charge, the air and fuel mixture fed into an

internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit. In an internal comb ...

CHARGE syndrome CHARGE syndrome (formerly known as CHARGE association) is a rare syndrome caused by a genetic disorder. First described in 1979, the acronym "CHARGE" came into use for newborn children with the congenital features of coloboma of the eye, heart ...

, a specific set of birth defects in children *

Explosive charge An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure. An exp ...

, a measured quantity of explosive material * Signed, finitely additive measure in mathematics

Military and iconography

Charge (bugle call) "Charge" is a bugle call that signals the command to execute a cavalry or infantry charge. It is especially associated with the United States Cavalry as a result of its frequent use in Western Western may refer to: Places *Western, Nebras ...

Charge (warfare) A charge is an offensive maneuver in battle in which combatants advance towards their enemy at their best speed in an attempt to engage in a decisive close combat. The charge is the dominant shock attack and has been the key tactic and dec ...

, a military manoeuvre *

Charges (military) ''Charge(s)'' (; literal: rank(s)) used to be the generic term to the military ranksBROCKHAUS, The encyclopedia in 24 volumes (1796–2001), Volume 4: 3-7653-3664-5, page 411, definition: ''Charge'' above the rank group of enlisted personnel in Germ ...

, ranks used in German-speaking armies *

Charge (heraldry) In heraldry, a charge is any emblem or device occupying the field (heraldry), field of an ''Escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon'' (shield). That may be a geometric design (sometimes called an ''ordinary (heraldry), ordinary'') or a symbolic repres ...

, any object depicted on a shield

Sports

Charge (basketball) In basketball, a personal foul is a breach of the rules concerning personal contact with an opponent. It is the most common type of foul in basketball. A player fouls out on reaching a limit on personal fouls for the game and is disqualified from ...

, illegal contact by pushing or moving into another player's torso * Charge (ice hockey), illegal contact by taking three or more strides or jumping before hitting an opponent * Charge (fanfare), played at sporting events * Guangzhou Charge, a Chinese esports team in the Overwatch League *

Ottawa Charge The Ottawa Charge (French language, French: ''Charge d'Ottawa'') are a professional ice hockey team based in Ottawa that competes in the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). They are one of the league's six charter franchises. The Charge p ...

, a women's hockey team

Other uses

* Charge of the Goddess, a text often used in the religion Wicca *

Charge (student associations) () or , often referred to as , is the umbrella term for many different kinds of Fraternities and sororities, fraternity-type associations in Geographical distribution of German speakers, German-speaking countries, including German Student Corps ...

, the executive of German student fraternities *

Charge (youth) 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 ...

, an underage person placed in the care of a medieval nobleman * Charge, a type of

pen spinning Pen spinning is a form of object manipulation that involves the Dexterity, deft manipulation of a writing instrument with hands. Although it is often considered a form of self-entertainment (usually in a school or office setting), multinational c ...

trick * , two classes of diplomatic agents *

Pastoral charge A pastoral charge (from the word ''pastor''), in Methodist churches, consists of one or more congregations under the spiritual leadership of a minister or ministry team. The minister is responsible for providing pastoral care, leading church servi ...

, a group of congregants in some Protestant churches