Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The unit of capacitance in the meter-kilogram-second system equal to the capacitance of a capacitor having an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a potential difference of 1 volt between the plates.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The electromagnetic unit of capacity of electricity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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.
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- noun In the
International System of Units , thederived unit of electricalcapacitance ; the capacitance of acapacitor in which onecoulomb ofcharge causes apotential difference of onevolt across the capacitor. Symbol: F
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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Much is riding on the outcome: the joule, watt, volt, farad, weber and ohm are only some of the units derived in part from the kilo.
The Fate of the Kilo Weighs Heavily on the Minds of Metrologists Jeanne Whalen 2011
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Since the unit 1 F (farad) is very great, the capacity of the capacitors manufactured only reaches fractions of 1 F.
6. Electrical Field 1991
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The unit of capacity of an insulated conductor is the _farad_, and a given insulated conductor is said to have unit capacity, that is, the capacity of one farad, when it will receive a charge of one coulomb of electricity at a potential of one volt.
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910
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The unit of electrostatic capacity is the _farad_.
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910
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CAPACITY -- K. -- The farad is that capacity of a body, say a Leyden jar or condenser, which a coulomb of electricity will charge to the potential of a volt.
The Story of Electricity John Munro 1889
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The Company has prepared and tested several prototypes, mostly under a grant from the State of Wisconsin, with the goal of filling this need -- some prototypes are as low as a couple of farads while others are in the hundreds of farad ranges.
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Additionally, the Company is assembling larger units in the several thousands of farad ranges.
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