ampere
/am-peer, am-peer/US // ˈæm pɪər, æmˈpɪər //UK // (ˈæmpɛə) //
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Electricity.
- : the basic unit of electrical current in the International System of Units, equivalent to one coulomb per second, formally defined to be the constant current which if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross section, and placed one meter apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 × 10−7 newton per meter of length. Abbreviation: A, amp.
Examples
Jean Marie Ampere, famed as a mathematician and natural philosopher, died.
Ampere—Amperes are units by which the rate of flow of electrical current (electrons) is measured.
An ampere is 6.3 billion electrons passing one point in a circuit, in one second.
Show how to figure the wattage that a circuit protected by a 15 ampere fuse can handle.
The coulomb is defined as the quantity of electricity delivered by a current of one ampere during one second.
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