Planck's constant


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Planck's constant/plaŋks/
noun Physics a fundamental constant relating the energy of a quantum of electromagnetic radiation to its frequency, equal to 6.626 × 10−34 joules.
– origin early 20th cent.: named after the German physicist Max Planck.
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