oersted

See also: Ørsted, örsted, and œrsted

English

Etymology

After Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted.

Noun

oersted (plural oersteds)

  1. The CGS unit of magnetizing field (symbol Oe), defined as 1000/4π (≈79.5774715) amperes per meter of flux path.

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