What is an electric field? How is it represented and measured?

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A region around a charged object, where another object experiences a force is called an electric field. The formula is - E = F / q? where E is the electric field at a point, q? is the small positive test charge placed at that point, and F is the force experienced by q?
The electric field is a vector

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