bicrofarad

English

Noun

bicrofarad (plural bicrofarads)

  1. (dated, nonstandard) A billionth of a farad.

Usage notes

  • Proposed in Houston and Kennelly, On Certain New Prefixes Proposed for Physical Unit Magnitudes (1894), but never seriously adopted as a unit of measure.[1]

References

  1. ^ Sizes.com (via Internet Archive) (2009-10-12). "bicro—, bicron". https://web.archive.org/web/20231209023426/https://www.sizes.com/units/bicron.htm
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