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Coulomb
CIDE DICTIONARY
Coulomb, n. [From Coulomb, a French physicist and electrican.].
The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantity transferred by one ampère in one second. Formerly called weber . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Coulomb, n. Electr. the SI unit of electric charge, equal to the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by a current of one ampere.
Usage
Symb.: C.
Etymology
C. A. de Coulomb, Fr. physicist d. 1806
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