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Definition of Farads
1. farad [n] - See also: farad
Lexicographical Neighbors of Farads
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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