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tesla

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈtɛslə//
  • United Kingdom//ˈtɛzlə//
  • United States//ˈtɛslə//

In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity.

noun

  1. 1

    In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity.

    In a draft paper, REBCO wiring has been reported to produce magnetic fields over 35 Tesla; the ARC design only needs 20T fields.

Etymology

Named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla, from Serbo-Croatian Tesla /Тесла.

Forms

plural
teslas
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).