tesla

English

Etymology

After Nikola Tesla; where Nikola means Nicholas, and Tesla is a Serbian surname. In Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛslə/
  • (file)

Noun

tesla (plural teslas or tesla) (see usage notes)

  1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity. Symbol: T
    • 2015 August 18, John Timmer, “Small, modular nuke plant proposed—this time for fusion”, in Ars Technica:
      In a draft paper, REBCO wiring has been reported to produce magnetic fields over 35 Tesla; the ARC design only needs 20T fields.

Usage notes

  • The SI brochure (Sec 5.3) notes that [u]nit names are normally printed in upright type and they are treated like ordinary nouns. This includes the normal rules of plural formation.
  • The NIST Guide for the Use of SI (Sec. 9.2) states: Plural unit names are used when they are required by the rules of English grammar. They are normally formed regularly, for example, “henries” is the plural of henry. According to Ref. [6], the following plurals are irregular: Singular —lux, hertz, siemens; Plural —lux, hertz, siemens. (See also Sec. 9.7.) There is no special exception for tesla.
  • When using the unit name tesla as an adjective, it is normally not pluralized. Compare the following:
  1. The nine-volt battery provides a potential difference of nine volts.
  2. The two-tesla magnet produces a flux density of two teslas.
  • Despite this distinction, the nonstandard plural forms Tesla or tesla are frequently found in scientific and lay literature. (See above quotation.)

Translations

Further reading

Tesla (unit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Catalan

Noun

tesla m (plural tesles)

  1. tesla

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tesla.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛsla]
  • Hyphenation: te‧s‧la

Noun

tesla f

  1. (archaic) adze (cutting tool)
    Synonym: teslice
  2. tesla (SI unit)

Declension

Further reading

  • tesla in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • tesla in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • tesla in Internetová jazyková příručka

Finnish

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian Tesla.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈteslɑ/, [ˈt̪e̞s̠lɑ]
  • Rhymes: -eslɑ
  • Syllabification(key): tes‧la

Noun

tesla

  1. tesla

Declension

Inflection of tesla (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative tesla teslat
genitive teslan teslojen
partitive teslaa tesloja
illative teslaan tesloihin
singular plural
nominative tesla teslat
accusative nom. tesla teslat
gen. teslan
genitive teslan teslojen
teslainrare
partitive teslaa tesloja
inessive teslassa tesloissa
elative teslasta tesloista
illative teslaan tesloihin
adessive teslalla tesloilla
ablative teslalta tesloilta
allative teslalle tesloille
essive teslana tesloina
translative teslaksi tesloiksi
instructive tesloin
abessive teslatta tesloitta
comitative tesloineen
Possessive forms of tesla (type kala)
possessor singular plural
1st person teslani teslamme
2nd person teslasi teslanne
3rd person teslansa

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /te.sla/
  • (file)

Noun

tesla m (plural teslas)

  1. tesla

Further reading

Anagrams


Polish

Etymology

Named after Nikola Tesla.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛs.la/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛsla
  • Syllabification: tes‧la

Noun

tesla f

  1. tesla

Declension

Further reading

  • tesla in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • tesla in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

tesla m (plural teslas)

  1. tesla (unit of measurement of magnetic flux density)

Romanian

Etymology

From French tesla.

Noun

tesla f (uncountable)

  1. tesla

Declension


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tesla.

Noun

tesla f (Cyrillic spelling тесла)

  1. adze (cutting tool)
  2. tesla (SI unit of magnetic flux density)

Swedish

Etymology

Named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla.

Noun

tesla c

  1. tesla

Anagrams

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