Meaning & use
microfarad
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a unit of electrical capacitance equal to one millionth of a farad.
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The capacitor on the circuit board was rated at ten microfarads.
Engineers chose a component with a higher microfarad value to store more charge.
A note on using this word
Abbreviated as µF; the farad itself is too large a unit for most practical electronic components, so microfarads (and smaller units) are used instead.
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