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AMPERE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ampere mean?
• AMPERE (noun)
The noun AMPERE has 2 senses:
1. a former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere)
2. the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
Familiarity information: AMPERE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
ampere; international ampere
Hypernyms ("ampere" is a kind of...):
current unit (a measure of the amount of electric charge flowing past a circuit point at a specific time)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
Context example:
a typical household circuit carries 15 to 50 amps
Hypernyms ("ampere" is a kind of...):
current unit (a measure of the amount of electric charge flowing past a circuit point at a specific time)
Meronyms (parts of "ampere"):
mA; milliampere (one thousandth of an ampere)
Holonyms ("ampere" is a part of...):
Context examples
A coil with an inductance of one henry requires a flux of one weber for each ampere of induced current.
(Henry, NCI Thesaurus)
A SI unit of magnetic permeability equal to one kilogram meter per second squared per ampere squared.
(Henry per Meter, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of electric current equal to one thousandth of an ampere.
(Milliampere, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
(Ohm, NCI Thesaurus)
One ampere represents 6.24 x 10E18 unit electric charge carriers, such as electrons, passing a specified fixed point in one second.
(Ampere, NCI Thesaurus)
A field of one gauss exerts a force on a conductor, placed in the field of 0.1 dyne per ampere of current per centimetre of conductor.
(Gauss, NCI Thesaurus)
A SI derived unit of an electric current density which is equal to an electric current of one ampere circulating in a homogeneous conductor with a cross section area of one square meter.
(Ampere per Square Meter, NCI Thesaurus)
A CGS unit of electric current equal to 10 ampere.
(Biot, NCI Thesaurus)
A SI derived unit of quantity of electricity, equal to the quantity of charge transferred in one second across a conductor in which there is a constant current of one ampere.
(Coulomb, NCI Thesaurus)
It is the magnetic auxiliary field strength created tangentially at a distance of one meter from a straight conductor of infinite length and with negligible cross section by a circulating current of one ampere, or linear electric current density when one ampere electric current is conducted in one meter wide conducting sheet.
(Ampere per Meter, NCI Thesaurus)
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