- Farad is the name of the standard unit of capacitance, formally defined to be the capacitance of a capacitor between the plates of which there appears a potential difference of one volt when it is charged by a quantity of electricity equal to one coulomb
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Etymology & Origin of farad
First coined circa 1860 and named after English scientist Michael Faraday