ampere

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ampere Meaning of "ampere"

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Definition(s):

  1. (n) a former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere)
  2. (n) the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

Synonym(s)

amp, international ampere

Usage(s):

  1. There the loose wire apparently completed the circuit to his earphones, may have carried through his head more than a full ampere of current.
  2. If the skin were broken, one might be electrocuted on 25 or 50 volts, on currents as low as one ampere.
  3. A current of one ampere is a flow of 6,281 billion billion electrons per second past a given point.
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