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femtohenry

femtohenry noun: one quadrillionth (10⁻¹⁵) of a henry.

Noun

femtohenry (plural femtohenrys or femtohenries)

  1. One quadrillionth (10⁻¹⁵) of a henry.
    • Although these parasitic inductances—typically ranging from a few hundred femtohenries to a few picohenries—are negligible at conventional switching frequencies (on the order of hundreds of kilohertz).2025, Liron Cohen, Joseph B. Bernstein, Roni Zakay, Aaron Shmaryahu, Ilan Aharon, “Switching Frequency Figure of Merit for GaN FETs in Converter-on-Chip Power Conversion”, in Electronics, volume 14...

Forms of femtohenry

pluralfemtohenrys
pluralfemtohenries

Origin of femtohenry

From femto- + henry.

Questions about femtohenry

What does femtohenry mean?
Femtohenry means one quadrillionth (10⁻¹⁵) of a henry.
What part of speech is femtohenry?
Femtohenry is a noun.
What is the plural of femtohenry?
The plural of femtohenry is femtohenrys.

Words near femtohenry in the dictionary

  1. femtogram
  2. femtogramme
  3. femtogrammes
  4. femtograms
  5. femtohenries
  6. femtohenry
  7. femtohenrys
  8. femtoinjection
  9. femtoinjections
  10. femtojoule
  11. femtojoules

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