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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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