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    TESLA

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but 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)play

    Synonyms:

    Nikola Tesla; Tesla

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Instance hypernyms:

    electrical engineer (a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity)

    artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meterplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

    Hypernyms ("tesla" is a kind of...):

    flux density unit (a measure of the amount of flux per unit of cross sectional area)

    Meronyms (parts of "tesla"):

    gauss (a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter)

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