EMU
WordNet
noun
(1) Large Australian flightless bird similar to the ostrich but smaller
(2) Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism
WiktionaryText
emu
- electromagnetic unit.
- 1943, Henry Augustus Perkins, College Physics, p. 530:
- A bar magnet NS has poles of strength 144 emu, 5 cm apart.
- 1959, American Geological Institute, Geoscience Abstracts, p. 38:
- The average intensity is 80 X 10"5 emu/cm3.
- 1974, William Berkson, Fields of Force: The Development of a World View from Faraday to Einstein, p. 168:
- The amount of charge named by one emu is that which produces a unit magnetic effect when flowing in a current at one unit length per second.
- 1976, John Aloysius O'Keefe, Tektites and Their Origin, p. 109:
- Booker and Harrison (1966) set an upper limit of 10~7 emu/g.
- 2005, Peter Mohn, Magnetism in the Solid State: An Introduction, p. 39:
- Experimentally the magnetic moment is usually given in units of emu/g, emu/cm3 or emu/mole.
- 1943, Henry Augustus Perkins, College Physics, p. 530: