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megafarad

megafarad noun: a unit of quantity of electric charge; the quantity of electricity flowing through a one megohm resistor when driven by an electromotive force of one volt for one second.

Noun

megafarad (plural megafarads)

  1. (obsolete) A unit of quantity of electric charge; the quantity of electricity flowing through a one megohm resistor when driven by an electromotive force of one volt for one second.
    • […] when electrotyping, electric light, &ᶜ become commercial we may perhaps buy a microfarad or megafarad of electricity […]24 August 1872, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, letter to James Clerk Maxwell
    • What is the work done by a current of 5 Megafarads per second through a resistance of 10 Ohms?1874, Josiah Parsons Cooke, Principles of Chemical Philosophy, page 575
  2. An improbably large unit of electrical capacitance equal to one million farads.
    • 34. The capacitance unit of convenient size is (a) farad (b) microfarad (c) kilofarad (d) megafarad1997, Mahesh Jain, S. Chand's Objective Physics for Engineering and Medical Entrance Examinations, page 857
    • Because of MF (now correctly the symbol for the massive megafarad) and mf having at some time been common symbols for microfarad, the millifarad (correctly mF) is rarely referred to […]2002, Donald Fenna, A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units, page 87

Forms of megafarad

pluralmegafarads

Origin of megafarad

From mega- + farad.

Questions about megafarad

What does megafarad mean?
Megafarad means a unit of quantity of electric charge; the quantity of electricity flowing through a one megohm resistor when driven by an electromotive force of one volt for one second.
What part of speech is megafarad?
Megafarad is a noun.
What is the plural of megafarad?
The plural of megafarad is megafarads.

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