ampere

See also: Ampere, ampère, Ampére, and Ampère

English

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):

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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)

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]

Noun

ampere m (plural amperes)

1. ampere

Derived terms

• ampere hora

Further reading

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

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ampèrê (first-person possessive ampereku, second-person possessive amperemu, third-person possessive amperenya)

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.

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amˈpɛr/
• Rhymes: -ɛr

Noun

ampere m (invariable)

1. ampere

Related terms

• amperaggio
• amperometro

 

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)

1. 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/

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃ˈpɛ.ɾɨ/

Noun

ampere m (plural amperes)

1. ampere (unit of electrical current)

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amˈpeɾe/ [ãmˈpe.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -eɾe
• Syllabification: am‧pe‧re

Noun

ampere m (plural amperes)

1. 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

1. ampere

Declension

Declension of ampere

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ampere	amperes
	definite	amperen	amperens
plural	indefinite	ampere	amperes
	definite	amperen	amperens

Related terms

• amperemeter
• amperestyrka
• amperetimme

 

References

• ampere in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)