farad
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- noun
- /ˈfɛrəd/
- Specialized
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faradio
- The specifications of the circuit require components rated in farads for proper functioning.
Examples
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It's it's square root of farads times voltages, times volts, very strange units.
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This is in farads and this is in volts.
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Or maybe it was Chattanooga guard Farad Cobb.
Blog text (18) -
It would be a large unit like the Sievert or the Farad.
Blog text (20) -
The result is a capacitance of 1 farad and a time constant for Earth's spherical capacitor in the range of 1000 to 3000 seconds.
Academic text (1998) -
Then, taking the distance to both the front gate and the back contact layer into account, one gets a capacitance C of 5 x 10^-18 farads and a related charging energy, given by e^2/2C, of about 15 med.
Academic text (1994) -
Self, whose Jayhawks were burned by the 18-point first-half performance of 6-foot point guard Farad Cobb, thinks he's found a solution regarding on-the-ball point guard defense.
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A capacitor with a capacitance of 1 farad can store a significant amount of electric charge.
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To convert capacitance from microfarads to farads, you divide the number by one million.
Synonyms
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7.4
A unit that shows how much electric charge a device can hold
How Much
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word farad is named after the scientist Michael Faraday, who studied electricity. A farad is a unit that tells how much 'electric charge' a device can 'hold', so the name links directly to Faraday's work on storing and moving electricity.