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Meaning of TESLA

Pronunciation:  'teslu

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia 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)
  2. [n]  a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter
 
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 Synonyms: Nikola Tesla
 
 See Also: artificer, discoverer, electrical engineer, flux density unit, gauss, inventor

 

 

 

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