A unit of electrical potential in the centimeter-gram-second (CGS) system of measurement, equal to one-hundred-millionth of a volt.
From 'ab-' (prefix from CGS system meaning 10^-8) + volt (unit of electrical potential named after Alessandro Volta), a technical scientific term.
The 'abvolt' is almost obsolete because scientists abandoned the CGS system for SI units, but it remains in dictionaries as a ghost of outdated measurement systems—a reminder that not all technical terms survive.
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