Farad

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Farad \Far"ad\, n. [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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  farad
       n : the capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and
           opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage
           difference of 1 volt between the plates [syn: {F}]