weber

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weber - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Weber \We"ber\, n. [From the name of Professor Weber, a German
     electrician.] (Elec.)
     The standard unit of electrical quantity, and also of
     current. See Coulomb, and Amp?re. [Obs.]
     [1913 Webster]

  Coulomb \Cou`lomb"\ (k??`l?n"), n. [From Coulomb, a French
     physicist and electrican.] (Physics)
     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 amp[`e]re in one second. Formerly
     called weber.
     [1913 Webster]

weber - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  weber
      n 1: a unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells [syn:
           weber, Wb]
      2: German physicist and brother of E. H. Weber; noted for his
         studies of terrestrial magnetism (1804-1891) [syn: Weber,
         Wilhelm Eduard Weber]
      3: United States abstract painter (born in Russia) (1881-1961)
         [syn: Weber, Max Weber]
      4: German sociologist and pioneer of the analytic method in
         sociology (1864-1920) [syn: Weber, Max Weber]
      5: German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826)
         [syn: Weber, Carl Maria von Weber, Baron Karl Maria   Friedrich Ernst von Weber
         ]
      6: German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli
         and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878)
         [syn: Weber, E. H. Weber, Ernst Heinrich Weber]