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Weber

//ˈwɛbɚ// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation] from Weber (“weaver”).

    "Ironically, the German university became more bourgeois just when contemporaries like Weber began to criticize the "social aristocratic tendency of our time" among the cultivated and when student subculture in the duelling corporations was becoming more neofeudal!"

  2. 2
    A locale in the United States.; An unincorporated community in Lewis County, Missouri; named for local merchant William Weber.
  3. 3
    A locale in the United States.; An unincorporated community in Washington; named for early settler Jacob Weber.
  4. 4
    A locale in the United States.; An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.
  5. 5
    A river in Utah, United States; running 201 km from the Uinta Mountains into the Great Salt Lake; named for fur trader and explorer John Henry Weber.
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  1. 6
    A hamlet in Tararua district, Manawatū-Whanganui region, North Island, New Zealand; named for surveyor Charles H. Weber.
Noun
  1. 1
    In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux; the flux linking a circuit of one turn that produces an electromotive force of one volt when reduced uniformly to zero in one second. Symbol: Wb.
  2. 2
    a unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Named after the German physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Weber.

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