name
Meaning 1
A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
tesla
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Pronunciation
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US: /ˈtɛslə/
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UK: /ˈtɛslə/
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UK: /ˈtɛzlə/
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rhymes with -ɛslə
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CMU ARPABET: T EH1 S L AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: T EH1 Z L AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
Inventor and physicist Nikola Tesla (1856–1943).
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noun
Meaning 3
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity.
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noun
Meaning 4
A car manufactured by Tesla, Inc., a battery electric vehicle (BEV) automaker founded in 2003.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: automotive, transport, vehicles
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noun
Meaning 5
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)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Nikola Tesla
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Broader terms: electrical engineer, inventor, discoverer, artificer
noun
Meaning 6
a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: flux density unit
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Tesla /Тесла, from Proto-Slavic *tesla. Cognate with German Dechsel, Dutch dissel, Russian тесло́ (tesló), Polish ciosła, Latin tēla. Doublet of tela and toile. The noun sense is from the automotive company Tesla, Inc., which was named as a tribute to Nikola Tesla.
Named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla, from Serbo-Croatian Tesla /Тесла.
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: Те́сла (Tésla) — surname
- Chinese Mandarin: 特斯拉 (Tèsilā) — surname
- Macedonian: Тесла (Tesla) — surname
- Serbo-Croatian: Tesla — surname
- Serbo-Croatian: Тесла — surname
- Amharic: ቴስላ (tesla) — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Arabic: تِسْلَا (tislā) — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Catalan: tesla — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Chinese Mandarin: 特斯拉 (tèsīlā) — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Czech: tesla — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Estonian: tesla — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Finnish: tesla — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- French: tesla — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- German: Tesla — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Greek: τέσλα (tésla) — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Hindi: टेस्ला (ṭeslā) — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Hungarian: tesla — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Indonesian: tesla — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Interlingua: tesla — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Italian: tesla — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Japanese: テスラ (tesura) — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Korean: 테슬라 (teseulla) — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Malay: tesla — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Polish: tesla — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Portuguese: tesla — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Russian: те́сла (tésla) — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Serbo-Croatian: tesla — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Spanish: tesla — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Swedish: tesla — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Thai: เทสลา (téet-lâa) — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density
- Urdu: ٹیسلا (ṭeslā) — Unit of measurement of magnetic flux density