megafarad
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See also: mega-farad
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]megafarad (plural megafarads)
- (physics, obsolete) A unit of quantity of electric charge; the quantity of electricity flowing through a one megohm resistor when driven by an electromotive force of one volt for one second.
- 24 August 1872, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, letter to James Clerk Maxwell:
- […] when electrotyping, electric light, &c become commercial we may perhaps buy a microfarad or megafarad of electricity […]
- 1874, Josiah Parsons Cooke, Principles of Chemical Philosophy, page 575:
- What is the work done by a current of 5 Megafarads per second through a resistance of 10 Ohms?
- 1876, Richard Evan Day, Exercises in Electrical and Magnetic Measurement, with Answers, page 45:
- (6.) How many megafarads are contained in 5.32 metre-gramme-second units of current?
- 24 August 1872, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, letter to James Clerk Maxwell:
- An improbably large unit of electrical capacitance equal to one million farads.
- 1997, Mahesh Jain, S. Chand's Objective Physics for Engineering and Medical Entrance Examinations, page 857:
- 34. The capacitance unit of convenient size is (a) farad (b) microfarad (c) kilofarad (d) megafarad
- 2002, Donald Fenna, A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units, page 87:
- Because of MF (now correctly the symbol for the massive megafarad) and mf having at some time been common symbols for microfarad, the millifarad (correctly mF) is rarely referred to […]
- 2015, Rudy Rucker, The Ware Tetralogy, page 345:
- Tomorrow he'd be sentenced to death by electrosheet, and couple of weeks after that, they'd put him in the electrocell with the two metal walls that were a megafarad capacitor, and then the great sheet of electricity would flash across, and then a janitor would come in and sweep Willy's ashes into a little plastic box to give to Mom and Dad.
Translations
[edit]a unit of electrical capacitance equal to one million farads
Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French mégafarad.
Noun
[edit]megafarad m (plural megafarazi)
Declension
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | megafarad | megafaradul | megafarazi | megafarazii | |
genitive-dative | megafarad | megafaradului | megafarazi | megafarazilor | |
vocative | megafaradule | megafarazilor |
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