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megafarads

megafarads is the plural of megafarad.

Meaning of megafarad

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
  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

Questions about megafarads

What is megafarads the plural of?
Megafarads is the plural of megafarad.

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