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Far"-a*bout` (?), n. A going out
of the way; a digression.
[Obs.] Fuller.


Far"ad (?), n. [From Michael
Faraday, the English electrician.] (Elec.) The
standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser
whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to
the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force,
passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged
with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive force of one
volt.


Far*ad"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining
to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; -- applied
especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain
forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday's investigations
of their laws.


{ Far"a*dism (?), Far`a*di*za"tion (?), }
n. (Med.) The treatment with faradic or
induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.


Far"and (?), n. See
Farrand, n.


Far"an*dams (?), n.


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