ampere
- n a former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere)
- n the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- Instead they are stored until a given amount (two-millionths of an ampere) accumulates.
- There the loose wire apparently completed the circuit to his earphones, may have carried through his head more than a full ampere of current.
- It records the action of one-millionth of an ampere, a force about one-tenth the "wing power" of a house fly.