henrys

Variant of henry

noun pl. henrys or henries

Elec. the basic unit of electric inductance in the SI and MKS systems, equal to the inductance of a circuit in which the variation of current at the rate of one ampere per second induces an electromotive force of one volt: abbrev. H

Origin: after J. Henry (1797-1878), U.S. physicist

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