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Henry

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A unit of measurement of inductance, which is the strength of a magnetic field in an inductor. The symbol for henry is the letter H. See inductance and inductor.

Henry
bald-headed, pugnosed and silent youngster of comic strip. [Comics: Sheridan, 200]
See : Muteness
(unit)henry - (H) The SI unit of inductance: one henry is the inductance of a closed loop in which the induced voltage is one volt if the current flowing through it changes by one ampere each second, i.e., 1 H = 1 Vs/A. Named after the American physicist Joseph Henry (1797-1878).
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A young man, Henry Otway, was reading, with his feet on the fender.
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"They did cut up more'n usual," Henry acknowledged.
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It started, directly, in the London palace of Henry III, and was the result of a quarrel between the King and his powerful brother-in-law, Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester.
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