Töltését

Töltését is the definite-object form of the Hungarian noun töltés, which covers several related meanings connected with filling, charging, or loading. The base töltés refers to the act or result of filling or loading something, or, in scientific contexts, to an electric charge. The form töltését is used when the noun is the definite direct object in a sentence, often translating loosely as “its charging,” “the charging,” or “the fill,” depending on the context.

Meanings and usage

In everyday and technical language, töltés can denote the process of charging a device, as in töltés (charging) of a battery or phone. In this sense, töltését would be the charging of a specified object, for example in a sentence like A telefon töltését figyelik, meaning “They monitor the phone’s charging.” In physics, töltés is the term for electric charge. Historical or military uses can refer to a load or charge, especially where töltet is the more common term for an ammunition charge, though töltés appears in some older or broader texts to describe a load.

Grammatical notes

Töltését is formed from töltés by adding the definite-object suffix -ét, a pattern used for definite direct objects in Hungarian. The exact sense of töltését—charging, filling, or content—depends on the surrounding words and the subject of the clause.

Etymology

Töltés derives from the verb tölteni, meaning to fill or to load. The noun takes on specialized senses in fields such as engineering, electronics, and physics, where it most often refers to charging or electric charge.