Meaning of megafarad | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A unit of quantity of electric charge; the quantity of electricity flowing through a one megohm resistor when driven by an electromotive force of one volt for one second.
   obsolete
2. An improbably large unit of electrical capacitance equal to one million farads.

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Examples

“[…] when electrotyping, electric light, &ᶜ become commercial we may perhaps buy a microfarad or megafarad of electricity […]”

“What is the work done by a current of 5 Megafarads per second through a resistance of 10 Ohms?”

“(6.) How many megafarads are contained in 5.32 metre-gramme-second units of current?”

“34. The capacitance unit of convenient size is (a) farad (b) microfarad (c) kilofarad (d) megafarad”

“Because of MF (now correctly the symbol for the massive megafarad) and mf having at some time been common symbols for microfarad, the millifarad (correctly mF) is rarely referred to […]”

“Tomorrow he'd be sentenced to death by electrosheet, and couple of weeks after that, they'd put him in the electrocell with the two metal walls that were a megafarad capacitor, and then the great sheet of electricity would flash across, and then a janitor would come in and sweep Willy's ashes into a little plastic box to give to Mom and Dad.”

CEFR level