weber Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells
    Wb.
  2. noun German physicist and brother of E. H. Weber; noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1804-1891)
    Wilhelm Eduard Weber.
  3. noun United States abstract painter (born in Russia) (1881-1961)
    Max Weber.
  4. noun German sociologist and pioneer of the analytic method in sociology (1864-1920)
    Max Weber.
  5. noun German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826)
    Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber; Carl Maria von Weber.
  6. noun German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878)
    E. H. Weber; Ernst Heinrich Weber.

WordNet

We"ber noun
Etymology
From the name of Professor Weber, a German electrician.
Definitions
  1. (Elec.) The standard unit of electrical quantity, and also of current. See Coulomb, and Ampre. Obs.

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