J
a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,867 of 86,757 words measured. It occurs 77,425 times across 426,181 published chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second also: joule, watt second
- the 10th letter of the Roman alphabet
J in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The President of the J. C. R. gives the first ‘after’ of the term.
Sinister Street, Vol. 2 · Compton MacKenzie · Chapter 1
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He was offered five thousand dollars for it after the Mary J. Morgan sale in 1886.
The Unpublishable Memoirs · A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf) Rosenbach · Chapter 1
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The rancher was the Reverend E. J. Lamb, one of the early settlers of Estes Park.
A Mountain Boyhood · Joe Mills · Chapter 1
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The best thing for him was a visit that he made to the veteran sculptor J. Q. A. Ward.
The Mentor — No. 36 · Lorado Taft · Chapter 1
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Another who began as illustrator is J. N. Marchand, who now paints the story-telling picture of the prospector and the cowboy.
The Mentor — No. 85, June 15, 1915 · Arthur Hoeber · Chapter 1