millitesla

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noun

One thousandth (10⁻³) of a tesla.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounmillitesla (plural milliteslas)

plural milliteslas

  1. One thousandth (10⁻³) of a tesla.

    In fact, we cannot see changes in the signal-to-noise ratio for flux densities from microteslas to several milliteslas, a limit dictated by the largest permissible current through our field coils.

    2001, M. Stähler, S. Knappe, C. Affolderbach, W. Kemp and R. Wynands, “Picotesla magnetometry with coherent dark states”, in Europhysics Letters, volume 54, number 3, →DOI, page 327

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sm̥-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*smih₂
  4. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰes-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰéslom
  6. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰéslih₂
  7. Proto-Indo-European*smih₂ǵʰéslih₂
  8. Proto-Italic*smīɣeslī
  9. Latinmīlle
  10. Frenchmilli-
  11. Englishmilli-
  12. Englishtesla
  13. Englishmillitesla

From milli- + tesla.

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Chicago

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