Definition of Farads

1. Noun. (plural of farad) ¹

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Definition of Farads

1. farad [n] - See also: farad

Lexicographical Neighbors of Farads

faradising
faradism
faradisms
faradization
faradize
faradized
faradizer
faradizers
faradizes
faradizing
faradocontractility
faradomuscular
faradopalpation
faradopuncture
faradotherapy
farads (current term)
faralimomab
farand
farandole
farandoles
farang
farangs
farantly
faravahar
faraway
farawayness
faraways
farblondjet
farbrengen

Literary usage of Farads

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Electrical Measurements ...: Instruction Paper by American School (Chicago, Ill.), George Washington Patterson (1909)
"If the capacity is rated in farads, omit the factor 1000000. In Fig. 48 the current I flows through the ammeter A, and the condenser of capacity C in series ..."

2. The Application of Hyperbolic Functions to Electrical Engineering Problems by Arthur Edwin Kennelly (1916)
"Total capacitance of a line (farads). An abbreviation for continuous current. ... Linear capacitance of one line of a loop (farads per wire-km.). ..."

3. Modern Engineering Practice: A Reference Library by American School (Chicago, Ill.) (1906)
"A circuit has a capacity of .2 micro- farads. What must be the value of its inductance to compensate for this capacity at 60 cycles ? ..."

4. An Elementary Treatise on Electrical Measurement: For the Use of Telegraph by Latimer Clark (1868)
"The condensers have a capacity of about twenty farads, and when employed with ten cells they create by induction an impulse of two hundred farads at the ..."

5. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1871)
"With 3 Daniell's cells the maximum current would not exceed 185 farads. Assuredly, we cannot suppose that in the lapse of three-tenths of a second, ..."

6. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, William Ripley Nichols, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1871)
"With 3 Daniell's cells the maximum current would not exceed 185 farads. Assuredly, we cannot suppose that in the lapse of three-tenths of a second, ..."

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