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sleek (medicine)


sleek


1. Having an even, smooth surface; smooth; hence, glossy; as, sleek hair. "So sleek her skin, so faultless was her make." (Dryden)

2. Not rough or harsh. "Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek." (Milton)

Origin: OE. Slik; akin to Icel. Slikr, and OE. Sliken to glide, slide, G. Schleichen, OHG. Slihhan, D. Slik, slijk, mud, slime, and E. Slink. Cf. Slick, Slink.

Source: Websters Dictionary


oersted (iou)



oersted noun. L19.
[H. C. Oersted (1777-1851), Danish physicist.]
Physics.
A unit of reluctance in the cgs system, defined as one gilbert per maxwell. L19-M20.
A unit of magnetic field strength in the cgs system, equal to that produced at a distance of one centimetre by a unit magnetic pole or by a thin straight wire carrying half an electromagnetic unit (five amperes) of current; one maxwell per square centimetre. Cf. GAUSS. M20.