Weber

4 definitions found

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

  Weber \We"ber\, n. [From the name of Professor Weber, a German
     electrician.] (Elec.)
     The standard unit of electrical quantity, and also of
     current. See {Coulomb}, and {Amp?re}. [Obs.]
     [1913 Webster]



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

  Coulomb \Cou`lomb"\ (k??`l?n"), n. [From Coulomb, a French
     physicist and electrican.] (Physics)
     The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It
     is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the
     current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt
     acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the
     quantity transferred by one amp[`e]re in one second. Formerly
     called {weber}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  weber
       n 1: a unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells [syn:
            {Wb}]
       2: German physicist and brother of E. H. Weber; noted for his
          studies of terrestrial magnetism (1804-1891) [syn: {Wilhelm
          Eduard Weber}]
       3: United States abstract painter (born in Russia) (1881-1961)
          [syn: {Max Weber}]
       4: German sociologist and pioneer of the analytic method in
          sociology (1864-1920) [syn: {Max Weber}]
       5: German conductor and composer of Romantic operas (1786-1826)
          [syn: {Carl Maria von Weber}, {Baron Karl Maria Friedrich
          Ernst von Weber}]
       6: German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli
          and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878)
          [syn: {E. H. Weber}, {Ernst Heinrich Weber}]

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

  Weber -- U.S. County in Utah
     Population (2000):    196533
     Housing Units (2000): 70454
     Land area (2000):     575.538505 sq. miles (1490.637821 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    83.926244 sq. miles (217.367964 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    659.464749 sq. miles (1708.005785 sq. km)
     Located within:       Utah (UT), FIPS 49
     Location:             41.232183 N, 111.972867 W
     Headwords:
      Weber
      Weber, UT
      Weber County
      Weber County, UT