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say it: TEH-sluh
tesla is a noun meaning "a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter". It is pronounced /ˈtɛslə/ — TEH-sluh. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter
United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tesla come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.