noun
- Plural of megadyne; units of force equal to one million dynes, used in physics and engineering.
Usage: technical; physics; rare in modern usage; the newton is the standard SI unit
Examples
- The experiment measured forces in megadynes to compare with historical data.
- Early 20th-century physics texts often expressed large forces in megadynes.
- The material could withstand stresses of several megadynes per square centimeter.