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TESLA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
electrical engineer (a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity)
artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("tesla" is a kind of...):
flux density unit (a measure of the amount of flux per unit of cross sectional area)
Meronyms (parts of "tesla"):
gauss (a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter)
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