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}]