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abhenries

n. countable
C2 Proficiency ab·hen·ries

n. a very small unit used to measure how much electricity flows through a wire. One abhenry is one billionth of a henry.

n. a unit of inductance equal to one billionth of a henry. Used primarily in the centimetre-gram-second system of units.


SIMPLE

The coil has a very small inductance of one abhenry.

CONTEXTUAL

Engineers working with extremely small electronic components might still use abhenries to describe the inductance of a tiny circuit.

COMPLEX

While the henry is the standard SI unit for inductance, the abhenry remains a historical unit used in certain specialized fields of physics and engineering.

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