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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A unit of capacitance equal to one millionth (10−6) of a farad.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The practical unit of electrical capacity, equal to the millionth part of a farad. It is the capacity of about three miles of an Atlantic cable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Elec.) The millionth part of a farad.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun physics One millionth ( 10-6 ) of a farad, abbreviated as µF.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a unit of capacitance equal to one millionth of a farad

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micro- +‎ farad

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