TESLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tesla mean? 

• TESLA (noun)
  The noun TESLA has 2 senses:

1. a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter

2. United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943)

  Familiarity information: TESLA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TESLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("tesla" is a kind of...):

flux density unit (a measure of the amount of flux per unit of cross sectional area)

Meronyms (parts of "tesla"):

gauss (a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Nikola Tesla; Tesla

Instance hypernyms:

electrical engineer (a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity)

artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

 Context examples 

Earlier this year Tesla’s founder Elon Musk announced that a new long-haul truck would be revealed in September but did not mention plans to make it self-driving.

(Tesla to Test Self-driving Electric Trucks, VOA News)

In SI units, one gauss equals 10-4 tesla.

(Gauss, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of magnetic flux density equal to 10(E-9) tesla (one nanotesla) or 10(E-5) oersted, traditionally used in geophysics for measurement of changes in the Earth's magnetic field.

(Gamma, NCI Thesaurus)

U.S. electric car manufacturer Tesla is close to testing a long-haul self-driving electric truck that could drive in convoys following a lead vehicle.

(Tesla to Test Self-driving Electric Trucks, VOA News)