Home › Words › S › svedbergsvedbergsvedberg means A surname from Swedish.EtymologyBorrowed from Swedish Svedberg.nameA surname from Swedish.nounA non-SI unit of sedimentation rate (symbol S or Sv), the rate at which particles of a given size and shape travel to the bottom of a tube under centrifugal force.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).