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faraday cage
an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference. -
faraday dark space
the dark region between the negative glow and the positive column in a vacuum tube occurring when the pressure is low. -
faraday effect
the rotation of the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light as the light passes through certain isotropic media in the direction of a strong magnetic field in which the medium is placed. -
farad
the standard unit of capacitance in the International System of Units (SI), formally defined to be the capacitance of a capacitor between the plates of which there appears a potential difference of one volt when it is charged by a quantity of electricity equal to one coulomb. Symbol: F. -
magnetic rotation
Faraday effect. -
negative glow
the luminous region between the Crookes dark space and the Faraday dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.