tesla

Named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla; where Nikola means Nicholas, and Tesla is a Serbian surname. In Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛslə/

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tesla (plural teslas or tesla) (see usage notes)

1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity. Symbol: T
   • 2015 August 18, John Timmer, “Small, modular nuke plant proposed—this time for fusion”, in Ars Technica‎:

     In a draft paper, REBCO wiring has been reported to produce magnetic fields over 35 Tesla; the ARC design only needs 20T fields.

• The SI brochure (Sec 5.3) notes that nit names are normally printed in upright type and they are treated like ordinary nouns. This includes the normal rules of plural formation.
• The NIST Guide for the Use of SI (Sec. 9.2) states: Plural unit names are used when they are required by the rules of English grammar. They are normally formed regularly, for example, “henries” is the plural of henry. According to Ref. , the following plurals are irregular: Singular —lux, hertz, siemens; Plural —lux, hertz, siemens. (See also Sec. 9.7.) There is no special exception for tesla.
• When using the unit name tesla as an adjective, it is normally not pluralized. Compare the following:

Tesla (unit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• setal, steal, ETLAs, telas, Astle, tales, least, salet, slate, Teals, stela, astel, Slate, Sleat, lates, leats, 'least, laste, teals, stale, taels

Named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla.

tesla m (plural tesles)

1. tesla

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

tesla

Wikipedia ^cs

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: te‧s‧la

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tesla.

tesla f

1. (archaic) adze (cutting tool)

   Synonym: teslice

Named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla.

tesla f

1. tesla (SI unit)

• “tesla”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “tesla”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “tesla”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

From Serbo-Croatian Tesla. Named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈteslɑ/,
• Rhymes: -eslɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): tes‧la

tesla

1. tesla

• “tesla”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• lesta

Named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla.

• IPA^(key): /te.sla/

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tesla m (plural teslas)

1. tesla

• “tesla”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• tales

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

tesla

Wikipedia ^pl

Named after Serbian-American inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla. Doublet of ciosła.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.sla/

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• Rhymes: -ɛsla
• Syllabification: te‧sla
• Homophone: Tesla

tesla f

1. tesla

• tesla in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla.

• Hyphenation: tes‧la

tesla m (plural teslas)

1. tesla (unit of measurement of magnetic flux density)

Borrowed from French tesla, named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla.

tesla f (uncountable)

1. tesla

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tesla f

1. definite singular nominative/accusative of teslă

Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has an article on:

tesla (alatka)

Wikipedia ^sh

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tesla.

tȅsla f (Cyrillic spelling те̏сла)

1. adze (cutting tool)

   Synonym: bradva

• “tesla”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla.

tȅsla f (Cyrillic spelling те̏сла)

1. tesla (SI unit of magnetic flux density)

• “tesla”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla.

tesla c

1. tesla

• salte, stela