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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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