FARAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does farad mean? 

• FARAD (noun)
  The noun FARAD has 1 sense:

1. the capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates

  Familiarity information: FARAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FARAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

F; farad

Hypernyms ("farad" is a kind of...):

capacitance unit (a measure of the capacity of a circuit component to store charge)

Meronyms (parts of "farad"):

millifarad (a unit of capacitance equal to one thousandth of a farad)

Holonyms ("farad" is a part of...):

abfarad (a capacitance unit equal to one billion farads)

 Context examples 

This constant is equal to approximately 8.854187817x10E-12 farad per meter (F/m).

(Electric Permittivity of Vacuum, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of an electric capacitance equal to one trillionth of a farad (10E-12 farad).

(Picofarad, NCI Thesaurus)