Maxwell

  1. Proper noun.  (surname, Scottish habitational) from Mackeswell near Melrose.
  2. Proper noun.  (given name, male) , transferred from the surname.
  3. Noun.  (physics) A unit of magnetic flux that produces one abvolt per turn per second.

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