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picohenry

picohenry noun: one trillionth (10⁻¹²) of a henry.

Noun

picohenry (plural picohenrys or picohenries)

  1. One trillionth (10⁻¹²) of a henry.
    • Parasitic inductances need to be kept below a picohenry and amplifiers need to have bandwidth approaching a gigahertz to keep the loss below 10% of the real power2007, Attma Sharma, Xuelin Wu, Khai D. T. Ngo, Fred C. Lee, Ming Xu, Yuancheng Ren, Andy Schmit, “Issues in the Delivery of RF Current Pulses to a Microprocessor”, in IEEE Transactions on Power...

Forms of picohenry

pluralpicohenrys
pluralpicohenries

Origin of picohenry

From pico- + henry.

Questions about picohenry

What does picohenry mean?
Picohenry means one trillionth (10⁻¹²) of a henry.
What part of speech is picohenry?
Picohenry is a noun.
What is the plural of picohenry?
The plural of picohenry is picohenrys.

Words near picohenry in the dictionary

  1. picoflagellates
  2. picogram
  3. picogramme
  4. picogrammes
  5. picograms
  6. picohenry
  7. picohenrys
  8. picohertz
  9. picoid
  10. picoidean
  11. picoideans

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