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farad noun. ['farad] M19.
[from FARADAY.]
Physics. The SI unit of electrical capacitance, being the capacitance of a capacitor in which one coulomb of charge causes a potential difference of one volt between the plates. (Symbol F.)
? Orig. proposed with different specifications, and as a unit of electrical charge.