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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The SI-derived unit of magnetic flux, equal to the flux that produces an electromotive force of one volt in a conducting loop when the flux is uniformly reduced to zero within one second.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name proposed by Latimer Clarke for the unit of electrical quantity which has since been named coulomb; it was also for some time used for the practical unit of electrical current which is now called
ampere .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Elec.), obsolete The standard unit of electrical quantity, and also of current. See
coulomb , andamp�re .
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- noun In the
International System of Units , thederived unit ofmagnetic flux ; the flux linking acircuit of one turn that produces anelectromotive force of onevolt when reduced uniformly to zero in onesecond . Symbol: Wb
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- noun German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878)
- noun a unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells
- noun German physicist and brother of E. H. Weber; noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1804-1891)
- noun German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826)
- noun United States abstract painter (born in Russia) (1881-1961)
- noun German sociologist and pioneer of the analytic method in sociology (1864-1920)
Etymologies
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bilby commented on the word weber
rt, one for your Measures list.
September 3, 2008
reesetee commented on the word weber
Thanks, b.
The practical unit of magnetic flux: the amount which, when linked at a uniform rate with a single-turn electric circuit during an interval of 1 second, will induce in this circuit an electromotive force of 1 volt. Wb = V s = m2 kg/s2 A.
September 4, 2008