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Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Weber \We"ber\, n. [From the name of Professor Weber, a German
   electrician.] (Elec.)
   The standard unit of electrical quantity, and also of
   current. See {Coulomb}, and {Amp?re}. [Obs.]

Source : WordNet®

weber
     n 1: a unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells [syn:
          {Wb}]
     2: German physicist and brother of E. H. Weber; noted for his
        studies of terrestrial magnetism (1804-1891) [syn: {Wilhelm
        Eduard Weber}]
     3: United States abstract painter (born in Russia) (1881-1961)
        [syn: {Max Weber}]
     4: German sociologist and pioneer of the analytic method in
        sociology (1864-1920) [syn: {Max Weber}]
     5: German conductor and composer of Romantic operas (1786-1826)
        [syn: {Carl Maria von Weber}, {Baron Karl Maria Friedrich
        Ernst von Weber}]
     6: German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli
        and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878)
        [syn: {E. H. Weber}, {Ernst Heinrich Weber}]
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