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!! ''Charge!!'' is the fourth studio album by American comedy rock band The Aquabats, released on June 7, 2005 by Nitro Records. Following a nearly six year semi-hiatus which resulted in numerous line-up changes, ''Charge!!'' was The Aquabats' fir ...

'', an album by The Aquabats * ''Charged'' (Nebula album) * ''Charged'' (Toshinori Kondo, Eraldo Bernocchi and Bill Laswell album)

Television

* ''Charge'' (TV series) *

Charge! (TV network) Charge! is an American digital broadcast television network owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. The network features action- and adventure-based programming sourced primarily from the MGM television and film library. The network is also avai ...

* "Charged" (''Reaper''), episode 2 of season one of ''Reaper''

Companies

* Charge Automotive Limited, an electric-vehicle manufacturer *

Charged Productions Charged Productions is an animation studio based in Brooklyn, New York. Created in 1999, they transformed their previous skills into a fully operational full-scale production company, making everything from feature films, to national commercial ...

, an animation studio * Charged Records, 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 makin ...

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

Floating charge 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 an ambulator ...

, 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 ...

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

information Information is an abstract concept that refers to that which has the power to inform. At the most fundamental level information pertains to the interpretation of that which may be sensed. Any natural process that is not completely random ...

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

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 specifically, ...

, 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). The "color charge" of quarks and gluons is completely unrelated to the everyday meanings of ...

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

Electric charge Electric charge is the physical property of matter that causes charged matter to experience a force when placed in an electromagnetic field. Electric charge can be ''positive'' or ''negative'' (commonly carried by protons and electrons respe ...

, a property which determines the electromagnetic interaction of subatomic particles **

Magnetic charge In particle physics, a magnetic monopole is a hypothetical elementary particle that is an isolated magnet with only one magnetic pole (a north pole without a south pole or vice versa). A magnetic monopole would have a net north or south "magneti ...

, 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 combus ...

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 expl ...

, a measured quantity of explosive material * Signed, finitely additive

measure Measure may refer to: * Measurement, the assignment of a number to a characteristic of an object or event Law * Ballot measure, proposed legislation in the United States * Church of England Measure, legislation of the Church of England * Mea ...

in mathematics

Military

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, Nebrask ...

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 decisi ...

, a military manoeuvre *

Charges (military) ''Charge(s)'' (german: Charge(n); 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 ...

, ranks used in German-speaking armies

Sports

Charge (basketball) In basketball, a personal foul is a breach of the rules that concerns illegal 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 disqual ...

, 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) "Charge" is a short fanfare frequently played at sporting events. \relative c'' It was written by Tommy Walker while a junior at the University of Southern California in the fall of 1946. The fanfare consists of six notes followed by rooters sho ...

, played at sporting events *

Guangzhou Charge Guangzhou Charge () is a Chinese professional ''Overwatch'' esports team based in Guangzhou, Guangdong. The Charge compete in the Overwatch League (OWL) as a member of the league's East region. Founded in 2018, Guangzhou Charge began play as on ...

, a Chinese esports team in the Overwatch League

Other uses

Charge of the Goddess The Charge of the Goddess (or Charge of the Star Goddess) is an inspirational text often used in the neopagan religion of Wicca. The Charge of the Goddess is recited during most rituals in which the Wiccan priest/priestess is expected to represent, ...

, a text often used in the religion Wicca *

Charge (heraldry) In heraldry, a charge is any emblem or device occupying the field of an '' escutcheon'' (shield). That may be a geometric design (sometimes called an '' ordinary'') or a symbolic representation of a person, animal, plant, object, building, or o ...

, any object depicted on a shield * Charge (student associations), 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 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 competitions ...

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. In the United Methodist Church The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a wor ...

, a group of congregants in some Protestant churches