Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A practical unit of work equal to ten ergs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One millionth ( 10-6 ) of a
joule , abbreviated asµJ .
Etymologies
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micro- + joule
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Examples
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Although the electrons were already present, keeping them still rather than allowing them to float around takes up extra energy - about a billionth of a microjoule per bit of data.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Nick Collins 2011
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I mean, that’s a tenth of a microjoule, and a joule is much closer to human scale, one watt-second, enough to lift a kilogram about tenth of a meter.
Technocracy James Killus 2008
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I mean, that’s a tenth of a microjoule, and a joule is much closer to human scale, one watt-second, enough to lift a kilogram about tenth of a meter.
Archive 2008-06-01 James Killus 2008
Logophile77 commented on the word microjoule
10^-6 joule.
November 29, 2017