Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Weber"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Weber \We"ber\, n. [From the name of Professor Weber, a German
electrician.] (Elec.)
The standard unit of electrical quantity, and also of
current. See {Coulomb}, and {Amp?re}. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Coulomb \Cou`lomb"\ (k??`l?n"), n. [From Coulomb, a French
physicist and electrican.] (Physics)
The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It
is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the
current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt
acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the
quantity transferred by one amp[`e]re in one second. Formerly
called {weber}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
weber
n 1: a unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells [syn:
{Wb}]
2: German physicist and brother of E. H. Weber; noted for his
studies of terrestrial magnetism (1804-1891) [syn: {Weber},
{Wilhelm Eduard Weber}]
3: United States abstract painter (born in Russia) (1881-1961)
[syn: {Weber}, {Max Weber}]
4: German sociologist and pioneer of the analytic method in
sociology (1864-1920) [syn: {Weber}, {Max Weber}]
5: German composer of romantic operas (1786-1826) [syn: {Weber},
{Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber}]
6: German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli
and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878)
[syn: {Weber}, {E. H. Weber}, {Ernst Heinrich Weber}]
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