megafarad

See also: mega-farad

English

Etymology

mega- +‎ farad

Noun

megafarad (plural megafarads)

(physics, 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.
- 24 August 1872, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, letter to James Clerk Maxwell:
  […] when electrotyping, electric light, &^c become commercial we may perhaps buy a microfarad or megafarad of electricity […]
- 1874, Josiah Parsons Cooke, Principles of Chemical Philosophy, p. 575:
  What is the work done by a current of 5 Megafarads per second through a resistance of 10 Ohms?
- 1876, Richard Evan Day, Exercises in Electrical and Magnetic Measurement, with Answers, p. 45:
  (6.) How many megafarads are contained in 5.32 metre-gramme-second units of current?
An improbably large unit of electrical capacitance equal to one million farads.
- 1997, Mahesh Jain, S. Chand's Objective Physics for Engineering and Medical Entrance Examinations, p. 857:
  34. The capacitance unit of convenient size is (a) farad (b) microfarad (c) kilofarad (d) megafarad
- 2002, Donald Fenna, A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units, p. 87:
  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 […]
- 2015, Rudy Rucker, The Ware Tetralogy, p. 345:
  Tomorrow he'd be sentenced to death by electrosheet, and couple of weeks after that, they'd put him in the electrocell with the two metal walls that were a megafarad capacitor, and then the great sheet of electricity would flash across, and then a janitor would come in and sweep Willy's ashes into a little plastic box to give to Mom and Dad.

Translations

a unit of electrical capacitance equal to one million farads

French: mégafarad (fr) m
German: Megafarad n
Italian: megafarad (it) m

Anagrams

megadaraf

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mégafarad.

Noun

megafarad m (plural megafarazi)

megafarad

Declension

Declension of megafarad

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) megafarad	megafaradul	(niște) megafarazi	megafarazii
genitive/dative	(unui) megafarad	megafaradului	(unor) megafarazi	megafarazilor
vocative	megafaradule		megafarazilor