Definition
abfarads
noun
- Plural of abfarad; a unit of electrical capacitance in the centimeter-gram-second (CGS) system, equal to 10^9 farads.
Usage: technical; physics; rarely used in modern practice; the farad is the standard SI unit
Examples
- The capacitor was measured in abfarads according to the old CGS system.
- Modern electrical engineers typically work with farads rather than abfarads.
- Historical physics texts sometimes reference capacitance values in abfarads.
- One abfarad equals one billion farads in the SI system.