ampere

See also: Ampere, ampère, Ampére, and Ampère

English

Alternative forms

• ampère, amp, A

Etymology

Named after the French physicist André-Marie Ampère.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæmˌpɪər/, /ˌæmˈpɪər/
• IPA^(key): /ˈæmˌpɛər/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: am‧pere

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 × 10^–7 newton per metre of length. (The International Bureau of Weights and Measures)

Derived terms

• abampere
• amperage
• exaampere
• microamp
• milliamp
• nanoamp
• picoamp

 

Translations

unit of electrical current

• Arabic: أَمْبِير m (ʔambīr)
• Armenian: ամպեր (hy) (amper)
• Asturian: amperiu m
• Basque: anpere (eu)
• Catalan: ampere (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安培 (zh) (ānpéi)

• Czech: ampér (cs) ?
• Dutch: ampère (nl) ?
• Esperanto: ampero
• Estonian: amper (et)
• Finnish: ampeeri (fi)
• French: ampère (fr) m
• Galician: ampere (gl) m, amperio (gl) m
• Georgian: ამპერი (amṗeri)
• German: Ampere (de) n
• Greek: αμπέρ (el) n (ampér)
• Hebrew: אמפר (he) ?
• Hindi: एम्पेयर ? (empeyar)
• Hungarian: amper (hu)
• Icelandic: amper (is) ?
• Indonesian: ampere (id)
• Interlingue:
• Irish: aimpéar m
• Italian: ampere (it) m
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• Japanese: アンペア (ja) (anpea)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 암페어 (ko) (ampeeo)
• Latvian: ampērs ?
• Lithuanian: amperas ?
• Malay: ampere, ampiar (ms)
• Maori: wae iahiko
• Polish: amper (pl) m
• Portuguese: ampere (pt) m
• Romanian: amper (ro) m
• Russian: ампе́р (ru) m (ampér)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̀мпе̄р m

  Roman: àmpēr (sh) m

• Slovak: ampér ?
• Slovene: amper (sl) ?
• Spanish: amperio (es) m, ampere (es) m
• Swedish: ampere (sv) ?
• Tagalog: amperyo
• Thai: แอมแปร์
• Turkish: amper (tr)
• Ukrainian: ампер (uk) ? (amper)
• Vietnamese: ampe

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Catalan

Noun

ampere m (plural amperes)

1. ampere

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Eastern Arrernte

Noun

ampere

1. (anatomy) knee

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

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Galician

Noun

ampere m (plural amperes)

1. ampere

   Synonym: amperio

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Italian

Noun

ampere m (uncountable)

1. ampere

Related terms

• amperaggio
• amperometro

 

Anagrams

• permea

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ampère

Noun

ampere m (plural amperes)

1. ampere (unit of electrical current)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amˈpeɾe/ [ãmˈpe.ɾe]

Noun

ampere m (plural amperes)

1. Alternative form of amperio

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amˈpæːr/
• Rhymes: -æːr

Noun

ampere c

1. ampere

Declension

Declension of ampere
	Singular		Plural
	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 (SAOL)