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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The International System unit of magnetic flux, equal to the flux that produces in a circuit of one turn an electromotive force of one volt, when the flux is uniformly reduced to zero within one second. See Table at measurement.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. 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.

Wiktionary

  1. n. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux; the flux linking a circuit of one turn that produces an electromotive force of one volt when reduced uniformly to zero in one second. Symbol: Wb

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Elec.), obsolete The standard unit of electrical quantity, and also of current. See coulomb, and amp�re.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878)
  2. n. a unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells
  3. n. German physicist and brother of E. H. Weber; noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1804-1891)
  4. n. German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826)
  5. n. United States abstract painter (born in Russia) (1881-1961)
  6. n. German sociologist and pioneer of the analytic method in sociology (1864-1920)

Etymologies

  1. Named after the German physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber (Wiktionary)
  2. After Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804-1891), German physicist. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • reesetee 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. Sep 3, 2008

  • bilby rt, one for your Measures list. Sep 3, 2008

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