ampere-hour
English
Etymology
established 1880-85, from ampere + hour.
Noun
ampere-hour (plural ampere-hours)
- (physics) a unit of electric charge, equal to the charge transferred by a current of one ampere in one hour through a specified point in a circuit, equal to 3600 coulombs.
Derived terms
Translations
unit of electric charge
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References
- “ampere-hour”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “ampere-hour”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "ampere-hour" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.