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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of energy equal to the energy acquired by an electron falling through a potential difference of one volt, approximately 1.602 × 10−19 joules.
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- noun physics A
unit for measuring theenergy ofsubatomic particles ; the energy equal to that attained by anelectron moving through apotential difference of one volt. Equivalent to 1.6022 x 10-19joules .
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