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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
farad /ˈfarad/ (abbrev.: F)

▶noun the SI unit of electrical capacitance, equal to a capacitance in which one coulomb of charge causes a potential difference of one volt.

– origin C19: shortening of faraday.

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