ampere

See also ampère

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• ampère, amp, A

Etymology

Named after the French physicist André-Marie Ampère.

Pronunciation

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Noun

ampere (plural amperes)

1. 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)

Derived terms

• abampere
• milliamp
• microamp
• nanoamp
• picoamp

Translations

unit of electrical current

• Arabic: أمبير (ar) (ambiir) m
• Asturian: amperiu (ast) m
• Basque: anpere (eu)
• Catalan: ampere (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安培 (cmn) (ānpéi)

• Czech: ampér (cs)
• Dutch: ampère (nl)
• Estonian: amper (et)
• Finnish: ampeeri (fi)
• French: ampère (fr) m
• Galician: ampere (gl) m, amperio (gl) m
• German: Ampere (de) n
• Greek: αμπέρ (el) (ampér) n
• Hebrew: אמפר (he)
• Hindi: एम्पेयर (hi) (ēmpēyar)
• Hungarian: amper (hu)
• Icelandic: amper (is)
• Irish: aimpéar (ga)

• Italian: ampere (it) m
• Japanese: アンペア (ja) (anpea)
• Korean: 암페어 (ko) (ampeeo)
• Latvian: ampērs (lv)
• Lithuanian: amperas (lt)
• Lojban: xampo (jbo)
• Malay: ampere (ms), ampiar (ms)
• Polish: amper (pl) m
• Portuguese: ampere (pt) m
• Romanian: amper (ro)
• Russian: ампер (ru) (ampér) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̀мпе̄р (sh) m

  Roman: àmpēr (sh) m

• Slovak: ampér (sk)
• Slovene: amper (sl)
• Spanish: amperio (es) m, ampere (es) m
• Swedish: ampere (sv)
• Turkish: amper (tr)
• Vietnamese: ampe (vi)

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Catalan

Noun

ampere m (plural amperes)

1. ampere

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Galician

Noun

ampere m (plural amperes)

1. ampere

Synonyms

• amperio

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Noun

ampere m (invariable)

1. ampere

Related terms

• amperaggio
• amperometro

Anagrams

• permea

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Spanish

Noun

ampere m (plural amperes)

1. ampere

Synonyms

• amperio

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Swedish

Noun

ampere c

1. ampere

Declension

Declension of ampere

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ampere	amperen	ampere	amperena
genitive	amperes	amperens	amperes	amperenas

Related terms

• amperemeter
• amperestyrka
• amperetimme

References

• ampere in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)