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Definition of Faraday
1. Noun. The English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867).
Definition of Faraday
1. Proper noun. (surname from=Irish dot=), Anglicized from (etyl ga) (term Ó Fearadaigh lang=ga). ¹
2. Proper noun. Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist ¹
3. Noun. (chemistry physics) The quantity of electricity required to deposit or liberate 1 gram equivalent weight of a substance during electrolysis; approximately - 96,487 coulombs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Faraday
1. a unit of electricity [n -DAYS]
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Literary usage of Faraday
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"John Glas, followed by his son-in-law, John Sandeman, had seceded from the
presbytériens, and most of faraday's relatives, as Michael faraday was born at ..."
2. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1870)
"The Life and Letters of faraday. By Dr. BENCE JONES, Secretary of the Royal ...
But to give a true and complete picture of the man faraday—to place his high ..."
3. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1892)
"faraday, on the other hand, shews us his unsuccessful as well as his successful
experiments, and his crude ideas as well as his developed ones, ..."
4. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"faraday MICHAEL faraday was born at Stoke Newington, near London, September 22,
... In 1821 faraday wrote a history of electro-magnetism, and the same year ..."
5. Essays in Historical Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1902)
"MICHAEL faraday, one of the greatest experimental philosophers of this or indeed of
... Of his mother faraday always spoke in the most affectionate terms, ..."
6. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1868)
"faraday AS A DISCOVERER.*—One of the most brilliant of modern scientific writers,
Professor Tyndall, an associate and intimate friend of faraday, ..."
7. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1868)
"Not only students of Physical Science, but all to whom the name of faraday has
become familiar, will here trace, with deep interest, the steps by which an ..."
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