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Definitions: Ampere |
AmpereNoun1. A former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere). 2. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites; "a typical household circuit carries 15 to 50 amps". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ampere" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references) |
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Aerospace | The unit of electric current; the constant current which, if maintained in two straight, parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross sections, and placed 1 meter apart in a vacuum will produce between these conductors a force equal to 2*10-7 newtons per meter of length.Abbreviation A. (references) |
Building | The rate of flow of electricity through electric wires. (references) |
Energy | The unit of measure that tells howmuch electricity flows through a conductor. It is like using cubic feet persecond to measure the flow of water. For example, a 1,200 watt, 120-volt hairdryer pulls 10 amperes of electric current (watts divided by volts). (Amp). (references) |
| A unit of measure for an electrical current; the amount of current that flows in a circuit at an electromotive force of one Volt and at a resistance of one Ohm. Abbreviated as amp. (references) | |
Meteorology & Standards | The ampere is that constant current which if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross-section and placed one metre apart in a vacuum, would produce between the conductors a force equal to 2 x 10(-7)newton per metre of length. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | The practical unit of electric current. The current produced by 1 V actingthrough a resistance of 1 Omega . (references) |
Public Administration | The international standard unit for the intensity of electric current. It is measured by an ammeter. Source: European Union. (references) |
Space | A unit of measurement of current flow. (references) |
| See electric current. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In physics, the ampere (symbol: A, often informally abbreviated to amp) is the SI base unit used to measure electrical currentss. By definition, 1 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 2x10-7 newton per meter of length.
The ampere is named after André-Marie Ampère, one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism.
The unit of electric charge, the coulomb, is defined in terms of the ampere: 1 coulomb is the amount of electric charge carried in a current of 1 ampere flowing for 1 second. (By SI standards, 1 coulomb per second is actually equal to 0.999835 ampere.)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ampere."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
AMPERE | English | Activity management programme for european research | Computing |
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Synonyms: AmpereSynonyms: amp (n), international ampere (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ampere |
| English words defined with "ampere": ampere-second, ampere-turn ♦ c, coulomb ♦ H, henry ♦ international ampere, International System ♦ J, joule ♦ ma, Microampere, milliampere ♦ ohm ♦ SI, Systeme International, Systeme International d'Unites ♦ v, var, volt, volt-ampere ♦ W, watt, watt second. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ampere": alternating-current ampere, ampere conductors, ampere volt ♦ cooling-system operator ♦ International System of Units ♦ MKSA system ♦ Ohms, operating engineer ♦ REFRIGERATING ENGINEER ♦ stationary engineer, refrigeration. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ampere" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (amp, ampere, amperes, amps), Italian (ampere), Manx (ampere), Swedish (amp, ampere). |
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| "Ampere" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ampere" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ampere": absolute ampere ♦ ampere balance ♦ ampere conductor ♦ ampere conductors ♦ ampere demant meter ♦ Ampere foot ♦ ampere hour ♦ ampere hour capacity ♦ ampere hour efficiency ♦ ampere hour meter ♦ Ampere minute ♦ Ampere second ♦ Ampere turn ♦ ampere volt ♦ international ampere ♦ volt ampere. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "ampere": ampere-hour, ampere-minute, ampere-second, ampere-turn. | |
Ending with "ampere": billion-ampere, kilovolt-ampere, volt-ampere. | |
Containing "ampere": volt-ampere-hour. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ampere | 100 |
ampere de ley | 40 |
ampere andre marie | 23 |
ampere andre | 12 |
ampere watt | 10 |
ampere volt | 9 |
ampere meter | 8 |
ampere hotel | 7 |
ampere law | 6 |
ampere definition | 6 |
ampere hotel paris | 5 |
ampere hour | 4 |
ampere volt watt | 4 |
ampere conversion watt | 2 |
ampere andré marie | 2 |
ampere reactive volt | 2 |
ampere analogia di e ipotesi | 2 |
ampere model | 2 |
ampere de el electricidad la ley magnetismo sobre y | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ampere"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | ampиre (ampиre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | amper. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | أمبير وحدة لقياس الكهرباء. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ампер. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 安培 (AMP, AMPS). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ampér. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ampere, A (caller, calling party, calling subscriber). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ampère (ampère). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | ampero (amp@re). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | امپر(واحدشدت جریان برق). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ampeeri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ampère (ampère). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ampere (amp, amperes, amps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αμπέρ (amp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | amper (amp, ampère). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | amper (electric meter, porch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ampere. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | アンペールの法則 (Ampere's law). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | アンペア . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "버r어 2 (ampere-second), "버r어 분 (ampere-minute). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ampere. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ampereay ampere, ampére. (various references) amper. (various references) ампер (amps). (various references) amper (amp). (various references) amperio (amp, ampère). (various references) ampere (amp). (various references) amper (amp, ampère). (various references) ампер. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "ampere": amperes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ampere": abampere, microampere, milliampere. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ampere": abamperes, hampered, hamperer, hamperers, microamperes, milliamperes, pampered, pamperer, pamperers, scampered, tampered, tamperer, tamperers, unhampered. (additional references) | |
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"Ampere" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ajmeri, Almere, Ameeri, Amera, ameree, amerle, amerue, ampa, ampage, Ampara, Amparo, ampe, Amper, ampers, amphere, ampre, ampres, ampro, anzere, apeare, Aperte, appere, apperi, apure, Arpege, aspere, aupere, impera, impere, maere, majeure, maper, Mapered, Mawere, Rampura, Wamwere, Zampieri. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-m-p-r" | |
-1 letter: ameer, perea, ramee, remap. | |
-2 letters: aper, mare, mere, pare, pear, peer, perm, pram, pree, ramp, rape, ream, reap. | |
-3 letters: amp, ape, are, arm, ear, eme, era, ere, mae, map, mar, pam, par, pea, pee, per, ram, rap, ree, rem, rep. | |
-4 letters: ae, am, ar, em, er, ma, me, pa, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-m-p-r" | |
+1 letter: amperes, empaler, pregame, premade, premeal, prename, tempera. | |
+2 letters: abampere, amperage, attemper, camporee, dampener, empalers, empyreal, empyrean, ephemera, exemplar, grapheme, hampered, hamperer, pampered, pamperer, permeant, permease, permeate, preamble, prearmed, preflame, prenames, remapped, resample, revamped, revamper, spearmen, tampered, tamperer, temperas. | |
+3 letters: abamperes, amperages, attempers, camporees, dampeners, empyreans, ephemerae, ephemeral, ephemeras, epidermal, epimerase, exemplars, exemplary, graphemes, hamperers, hyperemia, impearled, impetrate, imprecate, lamperses, madrepore, megaspore, pacemaker, pamperers, parameter, penumbrae, peperomia, permanent, permeable, permeases, permeated, permeates, praenomen, preambles, premarket, premature, prewarmed, promenade, reattempt, repairmen, repayment, resampled, resamples, restamped, revampers, scampered, semaphore, stampeder, supermale, tamperers, temperate, treponema. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6D 70 65 72 65 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- .--. . .-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101101 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m p e r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006D 0070 0065 0072 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357982718471 |
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