[syn: Weber, E. H. Weber, Ernst Heinrich Weber]
The 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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000):
Weber -- U.S. County in Utah
Population (2000): 196533
Housing Units (2000): 70454
Land area (2000): 575.538505 sq. miles (1490.637821 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 83.926244 sq. miles (217.367964 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 659.464749 sq. miles (1708.005785 sq. km)
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 41.232183 N, 111.972867 W
Headwords:
Weber
Weber, UT
Weber County
Weber County, UT