ampere

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See also: Ampere, ampère, Ampére, and Ampère

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

ampere

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 (US): (file)
Hyphenation: am‧pere

Noun

ampere (plural amperes)

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

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)
IPA^(key): (Valencia)

Noun

ampere m (plural amperes)

ampere

Derived terms

ampere hora

Further reading

“ampere” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Eastern Arrernte

Noun

ampere

(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)

ampere
Synonym: amperio

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

ampere

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):
Hyphenation: am‧pè‧rê

Noun

ampèrê (uncountable)

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.

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

ampere

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /amˈpɛr/^[1]
Rhymes: -ɛr

Noun

ampere m (invariable)

ampere

Related terms

References

^ ampere in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

permea

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Noun

ampere m (definite singular amperen, indefinite plural ampere, definite plural amperane)

ampere

References

“ampere” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

ampère

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃ˈpɛ.ɾi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃ˈpɛ.ɾe/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃ˈpɛ.ɾɨ/

Noun

ampere m (plural amperes)

ampere (unit of electrical current)

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /amˈpeɾe/
Rhymes: -eɾe
Syllabification: am‧pe‧re

Noun

ampere m (plural amperes)

Alternative form of amperio

Further reading

“ampere”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /amˈpæːr/
Rhymes: -æːr

Noun

ampere c

ampere

Declension

Declension of **ampere**
		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ampere	amperes
singular	definite	amperen	amperens
plural	indefinite	ampere	amperes
plural	definite	amperen	amperens

Related terms

References

ampere in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

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