ampere
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Named after the French physicist André-Marie Ampère.
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Wikipedia ampere (plural amperes)
- a unit of electrical current, the standard base unit in the International System of Units. Abbreviation: amp, Symbol: A
- Definition: The ampere is that constant current which, if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross-section, and placed 1 metre apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 x 10–7 newton per metre of length. (The International Bureau of Weights and Measures)
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unit of electrical current
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ampere m. inv.
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ampere c.
- an ampere (measurement unit for electric current)
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Declension of ampere
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- ampere in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)