tesla

See also: Tesla, teslă, тесла, and тесля

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛslə/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

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^[1]:

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

Usage notes

• The SI brochure (Sec 5.3) notes that [u]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. [6], 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:

1. The nine-volt battery provides a potential difference of nine volts.
2. The two-tesla magnet produces a flux density of two teslas.

• Despite this distinction, the nonstandard plural forms Tesla or tesla are frequently found in scientific and lay literature. (See above quotation.)

Translations

Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density

• Amharic: ቴስላ (tesla)
• Arabic: تِسْلَا‎ (tislā)
• Catalan: tesla m
• Czech: tesla (cs) f
• Estonian: tesla (et)
• Finnish: tesla (fi)
• French: tesla (fr) m
• Greek: τέσλα (el) n (tésla)
• Hindi: टेस्ला (ṭeslā)
• Hungarian: tesla
• Indonesian: tesla

• Interlingua: tesla
• Japanese: テスラ (ja) (tesura)
• Korean: 테슬라 (teseulla)
• Malay: tesla
• Polish: tesla (pl) f
• Portuguese: tesla (pt) m
• Russian: те́сла (ru) f (tésla)
• Serbo-Croatian: tesla (sh)
• Spanish: tesla m
• Swedish: tesla (sv) c
• Urdu: ٹیسلا‎ (ṭeslā)

Further reading

Tesla (unit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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

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Catalan

Noun

tesla m (plural tesles)

1. tesla

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Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tesla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛsla]
• Hyphenation: te‧s‧la

Noun

tesla f

1. (archaic) adze (cutting tool)

   Synonym: teslice

2. tesla (SI unit)

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	tesla	tesly
genitive	tesly	tesl
dative	tesle	teslám
accusative	teslu	tesly
vocative	teslo	tesly
locative	tesle	teslách
instrumental	teslou	teslami

Further reading

• tesla in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• tesla in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Finnish

Noun

tesla

1. tesla

Declension

Inflection of tesla (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		tesla	teslat
genitive		teslan	teslojen
partitive		teslaa	tesloja
illative		teslaan	tesloihin
		singular	plural
nominative		tesla	teslat
accusative	nom.	tesla	teslat
	gen.	teslan
genitive		teslan	teslojen teslainrare
partitive		teslaa	tesloja
inessive		teslassa	tesloissa
elative		teslasta	tesloista
illative		teslaan	tesloihin
adessive		teslalla	tesloilla
ablative		teslalta	tesloilta
allative		teslalle	tesloille
essive		teslana	tesloina
translative		teslaksi	tesloiksi
instructive		—	tesloin
abessive		teslatta	tesloitta
comitative		—	tesloineen

Possessive forms of tesla (type kala)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	teslani	teslamme
2nd person	teslasi	teslanne
3rd person	teslansa

Anagrams

• lesta

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te.sla/

• Audio (Paris)

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Noun

tesla m (plural teslas)

1. tesla

Further reading

• “tesla”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• tales

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Polish

Etymology

Named after Nikola Tesla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛs.la/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛsla
• Syllabification: tes‧la

Noun

tesla f

1. tesla

Declension

Declension of tesla

	singular	plural
nominative	tesla	tesle
genitive	tesli	tesli
dative	tesli	teslom
accusative	teslę	tesle
instrumental	teslą	teslami
locative	tesli	teslach
vocative	teslo	tesle

Further reading

• tesla in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tesla in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Noun

tesla m (plural teslas)

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

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Romanian

Etymology

From French tesla.

Noun

tesla f (uncountable)

1. tesla

Declension

declension of tesla (singular only)

	singular
f gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) tesla	teslaua
genitive/dative	(unei) -	-i
vocative

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tesla.

Noun

tesla f (Cyrillic spelling тесла)

1. adze (cutting tool)
2. tesla (SI unit of magnetic flux density)

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Swedish

Noun

tesla c

1. tesla

Anagrams

• salte, stela