weber

Noun

weber (plural webers)

1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux; the flux linking a circuit of one turn that produces an electromotive force of one volt when reduced uniformly to zero in one second. Symbol: Wb.

Proper noun capitalized: Weber

surname/ˈwɛbər/IPA/ˈwiːbər/

Weber

1. A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation] from Weber (“weaver”).
   • Ironically, the German university became more bourgeois just when contemporaries like Weber began to criticize the "social aristocratic tendency of our time" among the cultivated and when student subculture in the duelling corporations was becoming more neofeudal!1982, Konrad H. Jarausch, Students, Society and Politics in Imperial Germany: The Rise of Academic Illiberalism, Princeton University Press, page 121
   • Armed with shovels, gloves and headlamps, the team followed their map to the dig site. The vibe was “very piratey,” Dr. Weber said. Dr. Telewski set to digging a neat, squared-off hole.2021 April 21, Cara Giaimo, “One of the World’s Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up From the Dirt”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2021
2. An unincorporated community in Lewis County, Missouri; named for local merchant William Weber.
3. An unincorporated community in Washington; named for early settler Jacob Weber.
4. An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.
5. A river in Utah, United States; running 201 km from the Uinta Mountains into the Great Salt Lake; named for fur trader and explorer John Henry Weber.
6. A hamlet in Tararua district, Manawatū-Whanganui region, North Island, New Zealand; named for surveyor Charles H. Weber.