oersted
noun
oersted is a noun meaning “The CGS unit of magnetizing field (symbol Oe), defined as 1000/4π (≈79.5774715) amperes per meter of flux path” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-E-R-S-T-E-D, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of oersted is oersteds.
What does oersted mean?
noun
- 1
The CGS unit of magnetizing field (symbol Oe), defined as 1000/4π (≈79.5774715) amperes per meter of flux path.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of oersted
- oersteds plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is oersted?
Oersted appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does oersted come from?
After Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).