AMPERE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ampere mean? 

• AMPERE (noun)
  The noun AMPERE has 2 senses:

1. a former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere)

2. the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

  Familiarity information: AMPERE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMPERE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

ampere; international ampere

Hypernyms ("ampere" is a kind of...):

current unit (a measure of the amount of electric charge flowing past a circuit point at a specific time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

A; amp; ampere

Context example:

a typical household circuit carries 15 to 50 amps

Hypernyms ("ampere" is a kind of...):

current unit (a measure of the amount of electric charge flowing past a circuit point at a specific time)

Meronyms (parts of "ampere"):

mA; milliampere (one thousandth of an ampere)

Holonyms ("ampere" is a part of...):

abamp; abampere (a unit of current equal to 10 amperes)

 Context examples 

A coil with an inductance of one henry requires a flux of one weber for each ampere of induced current.

(Henry, NCI Thesaurus)

A SI unit of magnetic permeability equal to one kilogram meter per second squared per ampere squared.

(Henry per Meter, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of electric current equal to one thousandth of an ampere.

(Milliampere, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.

(Ohm, NCI Thesaurus)

One ampere represents 6.24 x 10E18 unit electric charge carriers, such as electrons, passing a specified fixed point in one second.

(Ampere, NCI Thesaurus)

A field of one gauss exerts a force on a conductor, placed in the field of 0.1 dyne per ampere of current per centimetre of conductor.

(Gauss, NCI Thesaurus)

A SI derived unit of an electric current density which is equal to an electric current of one ampere circulating in a homogeneous conductor with a cross section area of one square meter.

(Ampere per Square Meter, NCI Thesaurus)

A CGS unit of electric current equal to 10 ampere.

(Biot, NCI Thesaurus)

A SI derived unit of quantity of electricity, equal to the quantity of charge transferred in one second across a conductor in which there is a constant current of one ampere.

(Coulomb, NCI Thesaurus)

It is the magnetic auxiliary field strength created tangentially at a distance of one meter from a straight conductor of infinite length and with negligible cross section by a circulating current of one ampere, or linear electric current density when one ampere electric current is conducted in one meter wide conducting sheet.

(Ampere per Meter, NCI Thesaurus)