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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Weber \We"ber\, n. [From the name of Professor Weber, a German
electrician.] (Elec.)
The standard unit of electrical quantity, and also of
current. See Coulomb, and Amp?re. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Coulomb \Cou`lomb"\ (k??`l?n"), n. [From Coulomb, a French
physicist and electrican.] (Physics)
The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It
is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the
current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt
acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the
quantity transferred by one amp[`e]re in one second. Formerly
called weber.
[1913 Webster]

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

Moby Dictionary 196533
Housing Units (2000): 70454
Land area (2000): 575.538505 sq. miles (1490.637821 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 83.926244 sq. miles (217.367964 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 659.464749 sq. miles (1708.005785 sq. km)
Located within: Utah (UT) , FIPS 49
Location: 41.232183 N , 111.972867 W
Headwords:
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Weber , UT
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