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oersted


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Oersted  \Oer"sted\,  n.  [After  Hans  Christian  Oersted,  Danish 
  physicist.]  (Elec.) 
  The  C.G.S.  unit  of  magnetic  reluctance  or  resistance,  equal 
  to  the  reluctance  of  a  centimeter  cube  of  air  (or  vacuum) 
  between  parallel  faces.  Also  a  reluctance  in  which  unit 
  magnetomotive  force  sets  up  unit  flux. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  oersted 
  n  :  the  magnetic  field  strength  1  cm  from  a  unit  magnetic  pole 




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