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megafarad

noun

Etymology

From mega- + farad.

Definitions

  1. A unit of quantity of electric charge

    A unit of quantity of electric charge; the quantity of electricity flowing through a one megohm resistor when driven by an electromotive force of one volt for one second.

    • […] when electrotyping, electric light, &ᶜ become commercial we may perhaps buy a microfarad or megafarad of electricity […]
    • What is the work done by a current of 5 Megafarads per second through a resistance of 10 Ohms?
    • (6.) How many megafarads are contained in 5.32 metre-gramme-second units of current?

  2. An improbably large unit of electrical capacitance equal to one million farads.

    • 34. The capacitance unit of convenient size is (a) farad (b) microfarad (c) kilofarad (d) megafarad
    • Because of MF (now correctly the symbol for the massive megafarad) and mf having at some time been common symbols for microfarad, the millifarad (correctly mF) is rarely referred to […]

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