TESLA
Tesla, Nikola Tesla
(noun) United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943)
tesla
(noun) a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
Tesla (plural er-noun or Teslas)
A surname of Slavic origin.
Anagrams
• Astle, ETLAs, Slate, Teals, astel, laste, lates, least, leats, salet, setal, slate, stale, steal, stela, taels, tales, teals, telas
Etymology
Named after Nikola Tesla; where Nikola means Nicholas, and Tesla is a Serbian surname. In Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла
Noun
tesla (plural teslas or tesla) (see usage notes)
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity. Symbol: T
Usage notes
• The SI brochure (Sec 5.3) notes that [u]nit names are normally printed in upright type and they are treated like ordinary nouns. This includes the normal rules of plural formation.
• The NIST Guide for the Use of SI (Sec. 9.2) states: Plural unit names are used when they are required by the rules of English grammar. They are normally formed regularly, for example, “henries” is the plural of henry. According to [ https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1160090/metrics Ref. [6] ], the following plurals are irregular: Singular —lux, hertz, siemens; Plural —lux, hertz, siemens. (See also Sec. 9.7.) There is no special exception for tesla.
• When using the unit name tesla as an adjective, it is normally not pluralized. Compare the following
The nine-volt battery provides a potential difference of nine volts.
The two-tesla magnet produces a flux density of two teslas.
• Despite this distinction, the nonstandard plural forms Tesla or tesla are frequently found in scientific and lay literature. (See above quotation.)
Anagrams
• Astle, ETLAs, Slate, Teals, astel, laste, lates, least, leats, salet, setal, slate, stale, steal, stela, taels, tales, teals, telas
Source: Wiktionary
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