1871 1 118 A convenient condenser to use is one of three microfarads.
1925 J. M. Bryant & J. A. Correll ii. 51 The farad is too large a unit for most considerations, and the microfarad is more common, there being 1,000,000 microfarads in 1 farad.
1997 21 July 68/3 In circuits using six parallel Sanyo MV–GX series 16–V 1,000–microfarad capacitors, the total maximum ESR is 6.5W.