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weber |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Weber \We"ber\, n. [From the name of Professor Weber, a German electrician.] (Elec.) The standard unit of electrical quantity, and also of current. See {Coulomb}, and {Amp?re}. [Obs.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Coulomb \Cou`lomb"\ (k??`l?n"), n. [From Coulomb, a French physicist and electrican.] (Physics) The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantity transferred by one amp[`e]re in one second Formerly called {weber}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: weber n : a unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells [syn: {Wb}]
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