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Ampere

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Table of contents
1 English

1.1 Etymology
1.2 Noun

1.2.1 Short form
1.2.2 Translations
1.2.3 See also

2 Italian

2.1 Noun

English

ampere or (old-fashioned) ampère

Etymology

Named after the French phyicist André-Marie Ampère.

Noun

  1. In the International System of Units, the base unit of electrical current; the current which, if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross-section, and placed 1 metre apart in a vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 × 10-7 newtons per metre of length. Symbol: A

Short form

amp

Translations

See also

Wikipedia article ampere

Italian

ampere (pl ampere)

Noun

  1. (m) ampere
  2. (pl) plural of ampere

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