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English noun: tesla | |||
| 1. | tesla (quantity) a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | flux density unit | ||
| Part holonym | gauss | ||
| 2. | Tesla (person) 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) | ||
| Synonyms | Nikola Tesla | ||
| Instance hypernym | artificer, discoverer, electrical engineer, inventor | ||
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