dyne
pronunciation
How to pronounce dyne in British English:
UK [daɪn]
How to pronounce dyne in American English:
US [daɪn]
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- Noun:
- a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 cm/sec/sec to a mass of 1 gram
Word Origin
- dyne (n.)
- metric unit of force, 1873, from German use of Greek dynamis "power" (see dynamic (adj.)); perhaps also influenced by French dyne, which had been proposed c. 1842 as a unit of force in a different sense.
Example
- 1. The absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter .