Megafarad

Quick meaning: Megafarad is a noun meaning An improbably large unit of electrical capacitance equal to one million farads.

Meaning

An improbably large unit of electrical capacitance equal to one million farads.

More Meanings

1. (physics, obsolete) A unit of quantity of electric charge; the quantity of electricity flowing through a one megohm resistor when driven by an electromotive force of one volt for one second.

Example Sentences

(6.) How many megafarads are contained in 5.32 metre-gramme-second units of current?

What is the work done by a current of 5 Megafarads per second through a resistance of 10 Ohms?

34. The capacitance unit of convenient size is (a) farad (b) microfarad (c) kilofarad (d) megafarad

[…] when electrotyping, electric light, &ᶜ become commercial we may perhaps buy a microfarad or megafarad of electricity […]

Word Forms

• megafarads

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