Tesla
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
- 2 A car manufactured by Tesla, Inc., a battery electric vehicle (BEV) automaker founded in 2003.
"If they happen to have shares worth a couple of hundred million each, that’s a bonus, but other than their Teslas and Playstations,^([sic]) they can think of nothing they need to spend it on, although if the auto-pilot self-driving software isn’t released soon they’ll have to actually learn to drive rather than just leaving the cars plugged in all day."
- 3 a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter wordnet
- 1 A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
- 2 A surname from Serbo-Croatian.; Inventor and physicist Nikola Tesla (1856–1943).
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More examples"Nikola Tesla was a prolific inventor."
Etymology
Named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla, from Serbo-Croatian Tesla /Тесла.
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Tesla /Тесла, from Proto-Slavic *tesla. Cognate with German Dechsel, Dutch dissel, Russian тесло́ (tesló), Polish ciosła, Latin tēla. Doublet of tela and toile. The noun sense is from the automotive company Tesla, Inc., which was named as a tribute to Nikola Tesla.
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