Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

femtohenry

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fem-to-hen-ry
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One quadrillionth (10⁻¹⁵) of a henry.

Example Sentences

"Although these parasitic inductances—typically ranging from a few hundred femtohenries to a few picohenries—are negligible at conventional switching frequencies (on the order of hundreds of kilohertz)."

Etymology

From femto- + henry.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: femto

Inflected Forms

femtohenrys (plural) femtohenries (plural)

Questions

What does femtohenry mean?: One quadrillionth (10⁻¹⁵) of a henry.
Where does femtohenry come from?: From femto- + henry.

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