Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tesla

2 senses of tesla

Sense 1
tesla -- (a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter)
       => flux density unit -- (a measure of the amount of flux per unit of cross sectional area)

Sense 2
Tesla, Nikola Tesla -- (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))
       INSTANCE OF=> electrical engineer -- (a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity)
       INSTANCE OF=> inventor, discoverer, artificer -- (someone who is the first to think of or make something)