Meaning of HENRY
| Pronunciation: | | 'henree, 'henree
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- [n] American physicist who studied electromagnetic phenomena (1791-1878)
- [n] American Revolutionary leader and famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799)
- [n] English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836)
- [n] a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second
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| | Synonyms: | | H, Joseph Henry, Patrick Henry, William Henry |
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| | See Also: | | abhenry, American Revolutionary leader, chemist, inductance unit, millihenry, orator, physicist, public speaker, rhetorician, speechifier, speechmaker | |
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| | Definition: | | \Hen"ry\, n.; pl. {Henrys}. [From Joseph Henry, an
American physicist.]
The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit
when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one
volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one
amp[`e]re a second.
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| | Definition: | | (H) The SI unit of inductance: one henry is the inductance of a closed loop in which the induced voltage is one volt if the current flowing through it changes by one ampere each second, i.e., 1 H = 1 Vs/A. Named after the American physicist Joseph Henry (1797-1878). |
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