Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Farad"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Farad \Far"ad\, n. [From Michael Faraday, the English
electrician.] (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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
farad
n : 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 [syn: {F}]
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