begavolt
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
begavolt (plural begavolts)
- (dated, nonstandard) A billion volts.
- 1900, Journal of the Franklin Institute, volume 149, page 461:
- If the volt, ampere and ohm were taken as the absolute units, the practical units would be the ampere, begohm and begavolt, names just as convenient as ampere, coulomb and farad.
- 1954, Astounding Science Fiction, volume 52, numbers 4-53, page 161:
- Christofilos' idea was of no use whatever to him; multi-begavolt synchrotrons can only be built by multi-billionaires.
Usage notes[edit]
- Proposed, but never seriously adopted, as a unit of measure; later used in a few science fiction works.