dyne
French, noun/din/
dyne is a French feminine noun meaning “dyne” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Unité de mesure de force du système CGS, dont le symbole est dyn, définie comme la force requise pour…”.
What does dyne mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedyne
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Unité de mesure de force du système CGS, dont le symbole est dyn, définie comme la force requise pour produire sur une masse d’un gramme une accélération d’un gal (c’est-à-dire 1 cm/s²), soit 10⁻⁵ newton.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of dyne
- dynes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dyne?
- /din/
- \din\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dyne in French?
dyne appears about once in every 22 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).