(n) the capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates, Syn. F
n. [ From Michael Faraday, the English electrician. ] (Elec.) The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive force of one volt. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ From Michael Faraday, the English electrician. ] (Elec.) the quantity of electric charge that, passed though an ionic solution, will cause electrolysis of one equivalent of ions; it is equal to about 96, 490 coulombs. The number of univalent metal ions (such as silver in a silver nitrate solution) which would be deposited as free metal by such a current is Avogadro's number, 6.023 x 1023. [ PJC ]
a. Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; -- applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday's investigations of their laws.
v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Faradized p. pr. & vb. n. Faradizing ] (Med.) To stimulate with, or subject to, faradic, or inducted, electric currents. -- Far"a*diz`er n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
[法拉第, Fǎ lā dìㄈㄚˇ ㄌㄚ ㄉㄧˋ] Faraday (name); Michael Faraday (1791-1867), British experimental physicist prominent in the development of electricity#85715