oersted

Questions about oersted

What does oersted mean?

oersted means "the magnetic field strength 1 cm from a unit magnetic pole". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oersted?

oersted has 3 syllables: o-er-sted. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for oersted?

Close synonyms include Hans Christian Oersted. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is oersted a common word?

oersted is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.