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TESLA

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943)

Synonyms:

Nikola Tesla; Tesla

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

electrical engineer (a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity)

artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

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

flux density unit (a measure of the amount of flux per unit of cross sectional area)

Meronyms (parts of "tesla"):

gauss (a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter)

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