millitesla

See also: milli-tesla

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂

Proto-Indo-European *smih₂

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-

Proto-Indo-European *-lom

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslom

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Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslih₂

Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂

Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī

Latin mīlleder.

French milli-

English milli-

English tesla

English millitesla

From milli- + tesla.

Noun

millitesla (plural milliteslas)

1. One thousandth (10^-3) of a tesla.
   • 2001, M. Stähler, S. Knappe, C. Affolderbach, W. Kemp and R. Wynands, “Picotesla magnetometry with coherent dark states”, in Europhysics Letters‎^[1], volume 54, number 3, →DOI, page 327:

     In fact, we cannot see changes in the signal-to-noise ratio for flux densities from microteslas to several milliteslas, a limit dictated by the largest permissible current through our field coils.