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Where does “microjansky” come from?

microjansky (English) comes from English jansky, from Czech Jan, from Old Czech [[Jan]], [[Ján]], from Latin Joannes.

microjansky (English): A unit of flux density equal to one millionth of...

Definitions

  1. A unit of flux density equal to one millionth of...

Ancestry of “microjansky”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishjanskyA non-SI unit measuring electromagnetic flux...
2CzechJanJohn
3Old Czech[[Jan]], [[Ján]]—
4LatinJoannes—
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