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Definitions: Oersted |
OerstedNoun1. The magnetic field strength 1 cm from a unit magnetic pole. 2. Danish physicist (1777-1851). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "oersted" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1872. (references) |
Etymology: Oersted \Oer"sted\, noun. [After Hans Christian Oersted, Danish physicist.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Aerospace | The centimeter-gram-second electromagnetic unit of magnetic intensity. See gauss. (references) |
Meteorology & Standards | Anglo-saxon unit of magnetic field. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The unit is named after Hans Christian Ørsted who discovered electromagnetism in 1820.
Oersted is also name of the first Danish satellite, which was successfully launched into space on February 23, 1999. The main scientific objective of the spacecraft was to map the Earth's magnetic field.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Oersted."
Synonym: OerstedSynonym: Hans Christian Oersted (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Oersted |
| English words defined with "oersted": gamma ♦ Hans Christian Oersted. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "oersted": magnetic lines of force. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Oersted" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (oesophagus). |
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| "Oersted" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Oersted" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "oersted": Hans Christian Oersted. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
oersted | 28 |
christian hans oersted | 16 |
de experimento oersted | 6 |
hans oersted | 6 |
efecto oersted | 2 |
de ley oersted | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "oersted"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Ersted. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الإرستد وحدة الكثافة المغنطيسية, الإرستد وحدة الشدة المغنطيسية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 奥斯特. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ørsted. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | oersted. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | örsted. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | oersted. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Oe, έρστεντ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oersteday oersted (oesophagus), Equipamento Original Dos Fabricantes (original sin). (various references) Эрстед. (various references) danski fizičar. (various references) oersted, Ersted. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "oersted": oersteds. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "oersted" (pronounced 'Oer"sted'): Bilsted, Sunsted. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: teredos. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: desert, deters, doters, erodes, redoes, rested, sorted, stereo, stored, strode, teredo. | |
-2 letters: deers, deets, deter, doers, doest, doser, doter, dotes, drees, drest, erode, erose, ester, redes, redos, reeds, reest, reset, resod, rosed, roset, rotes, seder, sered, steed, steer, stere, store, terse, tores, torse, treed, trees, trode. | |
-3 letters: deer, dees, deet, dere, doer, does. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: bestrode, corseted, deforest, dextrose, dopester, dosseret, escorted, forested, fostered, modester, oersteds, oystered, resorted, restoked, restored, sectored, stereoed, storeyed, tetrodes. | |
+2 letters: bestrowed, bolstered, creosoted, decorates, defectors, deforests, defrosted, defroster, deportees, derogates, desertion, desolater, destroyed, destroyer, detectors, dethrones, deuterons, dexterous, dextroses, dolerites, dopesters, dosimeter, dosserets, dotterels, ectoderms, entoderms, foredates, holstered, lobstered, moderates, modernest, nondesert, odometers, outbreeds, outserved, overedits, presorted, prosected, proteides, protested, redeposit, reposited, resonated, respotted, restocked, roistered, rondelets, roystered, shortened, smothered, stevedore, stoppered, storewide, theorised, threnodes, torpedoes, udometers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 65 72 73 74 65 64 |
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