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Webster 1913 Edition


Farad

Far′ad

,
Noun.
[From Michael
Faraday
, the English electrician.]
(Elec.)
The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive force of one volt.