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According to the Tech Manual, it’s a measure of subspace distortion named after Zefram Cochrane, the inventor of warp drive. 1 cochrane is the distortion required to propel a ship at Warp 1, so field strengths are typically measured in millicochranes. It’s shown up on TNG a couple of times amidst Geordi’s technobabble.
