ampere

See also: Ampere, ampère, Ampére, and Ampère

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

ampere

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• ampère, amp, A

Etymology

Named after French physicist André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæmˌpɪəɹ/, /ˌæmˈpɪəɹ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæmˌpɛər/

• Audio (General American); /ˈæmˌpɛər/:

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• Audio (General American); /ˈæmˌpɪəɹ/:

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• Hyphenation: am‧pere

Noun

ampere (plural amperes)

2. A unit of electrical current, the standard base unit in the International System of Units; colloquially amp. Abbreviation: amp, Symbol: A

   Definition: The ampere, symbol A, is the SI unit of electric current. It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the elementary charge e to be 1.602 176 634 x 10⁻¹⁹ when expressed in the unit C, which is equal to A s, where the second is defined in terms of Δν_Cs. (The International Bureau of Weights and Measures)

   • 1900, Journal of the Franklin Institute, volume 149, page 461:

     If the volt, ampere and ohm were taken as the absolute units, the practical units would be the ampere, begohm and begavolt, names just as convenient as ampere, coulomb and farad.

Derived terms

• abampere
• ammeter
• ampacity
• amperage
• ampere balance
• ampere-foot
• ampere-hour
• ampere-turn
• amperometer
• attoampere
• centiampere
• decaampere
• deciampere
• exaampere
• femtoampere
• gigaampere
• hectoampere
• kiloampere
• megaampere
• megampere
• microamp
• microampere
• milliamp
• milliampere
• nanoamp
• nano-amp
• nanoampere
• picoamp
• picoampere
• teraampere
• voltampere
• volt-ampere
• yoctoampere
• zeptoampere
• zettaampere

Translations

unit of electrical current

Arabic: أَمْبِير m (ʔambīr) Armenian: ամպեր (hy) (amper) Asturian: amperiu m, ampere m Basque: anpere (eu) Bulgarian: а̀мпер (bg) m (àmper) Burmese: အမ်ပီယာ (ampiya) Catalan: ampere (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 安培 (zh) (ānpéi) Czech: ampér (cs) m inan Dutch: ampère (nl) ? Esperanto: ampero (eo) 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) m Hindi: एम्पेयर ? (empeyar) Hungarian: amper (hu) Icelandic: amper (is) n Indonesian: ampere (id) Irish: aimpéar m Italian: ampere (it) m Japanese: アンペア (ja) (anpea) Khmer: អំពែរ (ʼɑmpɛɛ) Korean: 암페어 (ko) (ampeeo) Latvian: ampērs m Lithuanian: amperas ? Macedonian: а́мпер m (ámper) Malay: ampere, ampiar (ms) Maori: wae iahiko Marathi: अ‍ँपियर m (a‍ĕmpiyar) Mongolian: ампер (mn) (amper) 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 m Slovene: amper (sl) ? Spanish: amperio (es) m, ampere (es) m Swahili: ampea Swedish: ampere (sv) c Tagalog: amperyo Thai: แอมแปร์ Turkish: amper (tr) Ukrainian: ампер (uk) m (amper) Vietnamese: ampe Yiddish: אַמפּער m (amper)

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French ampère, from French physicist André-Marie Ampère.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əmˈpɛ.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [amˈpeɾ]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

ampere m (plural amperes)

1. ampere

Derived terms

• ampere hora

Further reading

• “ampere”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Eastern Arrernte

Noun

ampere

1. (anatomy) knee

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
• 2020. Eastern and Central Arrernte Learners' List, compiled by Veronica Perrule Dobson and John Henderson. Alice Springs, NT.

Galician

Etymology

From French ampère, from French physicist André-Marie Ampère.

Noun

ampere m (plural amperes)

1. ampere

   Synonym: amperio

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

ampere

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

From Dutch ampère, from French ampère, named after André-Marie Ampère.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [amˈpɛrə]
• Hyphenation: am‧pè‧rê

Noun

ampèrê (plural ampere-ampere)

1. ampere

Further reading

• “ampere” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.