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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The centimeter-gram-second electromagnetic unit of magnetic field strength, equal to the magnetic intensity one centimeter from a unit magnetic pole.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In electricity, the unit of magnetic reluctance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Elec.) The C. G. S. unit of magnetic reluctance or resistance, equal to the reluctance of a centimeter cube of air (or vacuum) between parallel faces. Also, a reluctance in which unit magnetomotive force sets up unit flux.
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- noun The
CGS unit ofmagnetizing field (symbolOe ), defined as 1000/4π (≈79.5774715)amperes permeter offlux path .
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- noun Danish physicist (1777-1851)
- noun the magnetic field strength 1 cm from a unit magnetic pole
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Hans Christian Oersted, (1777–1851), Danish physicist.]
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After Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted.
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ruzuzu commented on the word oersted
"In electricity, the unit of magnetic reluctance."
--Century Dictionary
May 6, 2013
fakeymcfakeypants commented on the word oersted
Oh, "Magnetic Reluctance" is a fantastic name for a band!
May 6, 2013
ruzuzu commented on the word oersted
I think "Öërstëd" would be a funny name, too.
May 7, 2013