Meaning & use
tesla
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The SI unit of magnetic flux density, equal to one weber per square meter.
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The MRI machine generates a magnetic field of about 1.5 tesla.
Physicists measure the strength of strong magnets in tesla rather than gauss.
A note on using this word
Named after the engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla; as a unit of measurement it is written in lowercase and is unrelated to the car company of the same name.
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