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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A unit of electric potential equal to one millionth (10−6) of a volt.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A millionth part of a volt.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Elec.) A measure of electro-motive force; the millionth part of one volt.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One millionth (10-6) of a volt, abbreviated as µV.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a unit of potential equal to one millionth of a volt

Etymologies

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From micro- + volt

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