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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Farad \Far"ad\, n. [From Michael Faraday, the English electrician.] (Elec.) The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second the capacity, which charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive force of one volt. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: farad n : the capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates [syn: {F}]
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