"tesla" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtɛslə/ Audio: en-us-tesla.ogg [US] Forms: teslas [plural], tesla [plural]
Etymology: Named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla; where Nikola means Nicholas, and Tesla is a Serbian surname. In Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла. Etymology templates: {{named-after/list|inventor||||}} inventor, {{!}} |, {{lang|en|Nikola Tesla}} Nikola Tesla, {{named-after|en|Nikola Tesla|nationality=Serbian-American|occupation=inventor|wplink=Nikola Tesla}} Named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla Head templates: {{en-noun|s|tesla}} tesla (plural teslas or tesla)
  1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity. Symbol: T Categories (topical): SI units Translations (Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density): ቴስላ (tesla) (Amharic), تِسْلَا (tislā) (Arabic), tesla [masculine] (Catalan), 特斯拉 (tèsīlā) (Chinese Mandarin), tesla [feminine] (Czech), tesla (Estonian), tesla (Finnish), tesla [masculine] (French), τέσλα (tésla) [neuter] (Greek), टेस्ला (ṭeslā) (Hindi), tesla (Hungarian), tesla (Indonesian), tesla (Interlingua), tesla [masculine] (Italian), テスラ (tesura) (Japanese), 테슬라 (teseulla) (Korean), tesla (Malay), tesla [feminine] (Polish), tesla [masculine] (Portuguese), те́сла (tésla) [feminine] (Russian), tesla (Serbo-Croatian), tesla [masculine] (Spanish), tesla [common-gender] (Swedish), เทสลา (téet-lâa) (Thai), ٹیسلا (ṭeslā) (Urdu)

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