Ampere : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Ampere	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Ampere
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ampere n a former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere) Synonym(s): ampere, international ampere the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; "a typical household circuit carries 15 to 50 amps" Synonym(s): ampere, amp, A
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Amp8are \[d8]Am`p[8a]re"\ ([aum]N`p[acir]r"), Ampere \Ampere"\ ([acr]mp[amac]r"), n. [From the name of a French electrician.] (Elec.) The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the {international amp[8a]re}.